Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

Whose skin did Mowgli proceed to remove from the carcass?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skin · What happens: proceed, remove · To what, where: carcass

This is exam question 4 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	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proceed	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proceed	aux
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 proceed	nsubj
5	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 remove	mark
7	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proceed	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 carcass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carcass	det
10	carcass	carcass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 proceed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past · do-support	skin						vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	remove	to-infinitive	skin not said here			the carcass			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from carcass=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

the tiger's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 tiger	case

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the cow's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cow	case

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

Option 3

the bull's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bull	case

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

Option 4

the jackal's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 jackal	case

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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