Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

What is the principal reason given for the monkeys' reluctance to engage in combat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, give, engage · To what, where: principal reason, combat

This is exam question 3 of lesson 609 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reason	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 reluctance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monkeys	det
9	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reluctance	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 monkeys	case
11	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 engage	mark
13	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 given	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 combat	case
15	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 engage	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal reason		tree rules
2	give	participle	the principal reason not said here	for the monkeys's reluctance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for reluctance=Asset
3	engage	to-infinitive		in combat goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in combat=Goal

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Odds of a hundred to one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Odds	odd	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 hundred	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Odds	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The panther is too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 panther	det
2	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the panther					big property	tree rules

Option 3

Because Kaa had frozen the whole army of the monkeys in place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 frozen	mark
2	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	aux
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 army	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 army	amod
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 monkeys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkeys	det
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 army	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · perfect · passive		Kaa		place			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The monkeys believed Mowgli had already been eaten by the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 believed	nsubj
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux
6	already	already	ADV	_	8 eaten	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 believed	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 snake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the monkeys						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	eat	past · perfect · passive	the snake	Mowgli					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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