Exam question 1 · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

In what manner did Kaa penetrate the marble screen-work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kaa · What happens: penetrate · To what, where: marble screen work, manner

This is exam question 1 of lesson 610 «Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the monkeys freeze under the Hunger Dance» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 penetrate	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 penetrate	aux
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 penetrate	nsubj
6	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 work	det
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 work	compound
9	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 work	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 screen	punct
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 penetrate	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 penetrate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	penetrate	past · do-support	Kaa	the marble screen work		what manner			vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

By delivering repeated full-power blows with his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 delivering	mark
2	delivering	deliver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 repeated	advcl
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 power	amod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 power	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	nsubj
7	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	deliver	gerund			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	repeat	participle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	blow	present	repeated full power	with power's tail	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with tail=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By delivering repeated full-power blows with his nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 delivering	mark
2	delivering	deliver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 repeated	advcl
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 power	amod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 power	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	nsubj
7	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 nose	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nose	nmod:poss
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	deliver	gerund			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	repeat	participle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	blow	present	repeated full power	with power's nose	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with nose=Theme

Option 3

By delivering repeated full-power blows with his nose, each one landing hard against the marble until the screen cracked apart entirely

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 delivering	mark
2	delivering	deliver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 repeated	advcl
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 power	amod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 power	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	nsubj
7	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 nose	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nose	nmod:poss
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nose	appos
14	landing	land	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 one	acl
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 landing	advmod
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 marble	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 marble	det
18	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 landing	obl
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 cracked	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 screen	det
21	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cracked	nsubj
22	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blows	advcl
23	apart	apart	ADV	_	22 cracked	advmod
24	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	22 cracked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	deliver	gerund			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	repeat	participle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	blow	present	repeated full power	with power's nose	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with nose=Theme
4	land	gerund	each one not said here	against the marble; hard property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crack	past	the screen	apart, entirely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

By launching hard strikes with his whole coiled body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 launching	mark
2	launching	launch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strikes	amod
4	strikes	strike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 launching	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 body	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
8	coiled	coiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 launching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	launch	gerund		hard strikes				with his whole coiled body	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent strike=Patient with body=Instrument

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