Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

What was the intended purpose of dividing the herd?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: intended purpose · What happens: be, intend, divide · To what, where: herd

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 purpose	det
4	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 purpose	amod
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 dividing	mark
7	dividing	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 purpose	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 herd	det
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dividing	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the intended purpose		tree rules
2	intend	participle			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	divide	gerund	the intended purpose not said here	the herd	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=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 · ← Mova's choice

To make the herd smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herd	det
4	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the herd				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herd=Product

Option 2

To keep the cows safe from the tiger's claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cows	det
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 claws	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tiger	det
8	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 claws	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 tiger	case
10	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive			the cows	the tiger's claws		safe property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cow=Beneficiary from claw=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To prevent the bulls and cows from uniting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bulls	det
4	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevent	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cows	cc
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bulls	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 uniting	case
8	uniting	uniting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive			the bulls and cows	uniting			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer bull=Beneficiary from uniting=Eventuality

Option 4

To confuse the tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 confuse	mark
2	confuse	confuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 confuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	to-infinitive		the tiger					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient

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