Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

Which option accurately states the location at which Mowgli arranged to rendezvous with Gray Brother should Shere Khan return?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: option, Mowgli, location · What happens: state, arrange, rendezvous, return · To what, where: location · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 612 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds the buffaloes and hears that Shere Khan is back» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 option	det
2	option	option	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 states	nsubj
3	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	4 states	advmod
4	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 location	det
6	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 arranged	obl
9	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 arranged	nsubj
10	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 location	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rendezvous	mark
12	rendezvous	rendezvous	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 arranged	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Gray	case
14	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rendezvous	obl
15	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Gray	flat
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
17	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 return	nsubj
18	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Shere	flat
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 states	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present	which option		accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	arrange	past	Mowgli	the location		tree rules
3	rendezvous	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here		with Gray	tree rules
4	return	should	the location			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 ravine by the dhâk tree in the plain, where the grass grows golden and tall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ravine	det
2	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	dhâk	dhâk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ravine	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plain	det
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ravine	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 grows	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grows	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tall	cc
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 golden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the ravine by the dhâk tree in the plain					golden property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The ravine by the dhâk tree in the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ravine	det
2	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	dhâk	dhâk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ravine	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plain	det
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ravine	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The fig tree near the village well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 tree	advmod

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

Option 4

The deep ravine by the dhâk tree in the open plain, away from the village and the herd

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ravine	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ravine	amod
3	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	dhâk	dhâk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ravine	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 plain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plain	amod
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 away	punct
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 plain	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 herd	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 herd	det
19	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ravine	conj

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

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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