Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

how far away was Gray Brother from Mowgli on the plain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Gray	cop
5	Gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Brother	amod
6	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 away	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Mowgli	case
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 away	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						gray property	tree rules

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

a mile and a half, like across a big field, over the grass and the stony ridge

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mile	det
2	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 mile	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 field	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 field	case
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mile	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grass	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mile	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ridge	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ridge	det
18	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ridge	amod
19	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mile	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a mile and a half, like across a big field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mile	det
2	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 mile	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 field	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 field	case
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mile	conj

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

Option 3

two miles, like across a dusty plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plain	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 plain	case
5	across	across	ADP	_	8 plain	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plain	det
7	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plain	amod
8	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	nmod

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

Option 4

a few miles, like over a river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 miles	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miles	amod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 miles	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miles	nmod

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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