Exam question 4 · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

How did the Python describe Mowgli's courage and manners?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Python · What happens: describe · To what, where: courage

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 describe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 describe	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Python	det
4	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 describe	nsubj
5	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 courage	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mowgli	case
8	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describe	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 manners	cc
10	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 courage	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past · do-support	the Python	Mowgli's courage and manners					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent courage=Theme

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

A brave heart and a courteous tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tongue	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tongue	det
6	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tongue	amod
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	conj

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

Option 2

A strong back and a sharp tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 back	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 back	amod
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tongue	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tongue	det
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tongue	amod
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, as the Python himself said of the boy

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tongue	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tongue	det
6	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tongue	amod
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Python	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 Python	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Python	det
11	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heart	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 Python	nmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 boy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a brave heart and a courteous tongue and the Python himself					of the boy	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, though he is still a small cub with much to learn about the jungle

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tongue	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tongue	det
6	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tongue	amod
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cub	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 cub	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cub	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cub	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	15 cub	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cub	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cub	amod
15	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 much	case
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cub	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 learn	mark
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cub	acl
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 jungle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 jungle	det
22	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a small cub			still	with much	tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive						about the jungle	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about jungle=Topic

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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