Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

By what means did Gray Brother acquire knowledge of Shere Khan's plan?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gray, Shere Khan · What happens: mean, acquire, plan · To what, where: knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 613 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd crushes Shere Khan in the ravine» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Gray	aux
5	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 acquire	nsubj
6	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Gray	flat
7	acquire	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acquire	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 plan	case
10	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Khan	compound
11	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 plan	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Khan	case
13	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knowledge	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	acquire	present	Gray	knowledge of Shere Khan's plan	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme
3	plan		Shere Khan		nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

A jackal warned him early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warned	nsubj
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warned	obj
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 warned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	a jackal		him = he			early property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He heard it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 heard	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	He	it				himself = he obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

He smelled the tiger's trail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trail	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tiger	case
6	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	He	the tiger's trail					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trail=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He had met Tabaqui at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	aux
3	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	He	Tabaqui			dawn		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabaqui=Co-Agent

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