Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…
who's the guy who's hot on Mowgli's trail?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: be · To what, where: guy, trail
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 guy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 guy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guy | det |
| 4 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hot | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | cop |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 trail | case |
| 9 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Mowgli | case |
| 11 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hot | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 guy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the guy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the guy | Mowgli's trail | hot 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
Kaa, that slithery old snake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 snake | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 snake | nsubj |
| 4 | slithery | slithery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kaa | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snake | that | tree rules |
Option 2
Buldeo, that loud old hunter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buldeo | buldeo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hunter | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hunter | nsubj |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hunter | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hunter | amod |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buldeo | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunter | that | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Tabaqui, that sneaky dude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tabaqui | Tabaqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dude | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dude | det |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dude | amod |
| 5 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tabaqui | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Buldeo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buldeo | buldeo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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