Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…
What did the monkeys reply when Kaa asked whether they could see?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkeys, Kaa · What happens: do, reply, ask, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monkeys | det |
| 4 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reply | nsubj |
| 5 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 asked | advmod |
| 7 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | advcl |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | present | the monkeys | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Kaa | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | could | monkeys = monkey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
"We hear, O Kaa."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 Kaa | discourse |
| 6 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | vocative |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | We | Kaa vocative | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
"No, Kaa."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kaa | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 Kaa | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kaa | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kaa | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"Yes."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"We see, O Kaa."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 Kaa | discourse |
| 6 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | We | Kaa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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