Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

Upon what grounds did Mowgli judge the ravine walls insurmountable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grounds · What happens: judge · To what, where: ravine walls

This is exam question 2 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 judge	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 judge	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 judge	aux
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 judge	nsubj
6	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
8	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	compound
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 judge	obj
10	insurmountable	insurmountable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 walls	amod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 judge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past · do-support	grounds	the ravine walls					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent wall=Value

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

They rose high and offered no grip to claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rose	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 offered	cc
5	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 grip	det
7	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offered	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 claws	case
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 offered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	They					high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	They not said here	no grip				to claws goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent grip=Theme to claw=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were nearly straight and bare of foothold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 straight	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 straight	cop
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 straight	advmod
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bare	cc
6	bare	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 straight	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 foothold	case
8	foothold	foothold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					nearly, straight property	tree rules
2	bear	infinitive	They not said here					of foothold	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They were nearly vertical, slick with mud, and bare of any foothold or vine

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vertical	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vertical	cop
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 vertical	advmod
4	vertical	vertical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slick	punct
6	slick	slick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vertical	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 mud	case
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slick	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bare	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bare	cc
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vertical	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 foothold	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 foothold	det
14	foothold	foothold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bare	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 vine	cc
16	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foothold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	They	nearly, vertical property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here	with mud	tree rules
3	be		They not said here	of any foothold or vine	tree rules

Option 4

They were far too high for any tiger to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 high	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 high	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 tiger	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 tiger	det
8	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 high	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					for any tiger; far, high property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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