Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

what did Mowgli keep on his neck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: keep · To what, where: neck

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	4 keep	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Mowgli			Mowgli's neck			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme on neck=Location

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

a long iron knife in a leather sheath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sheath	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sheath	det
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sheath	compound
8	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	nmod

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

Option 2

a spear on his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spear	det
2	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spear	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his knife in a sheath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 knife	nmod:poss
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sheath	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sheath	det
5	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knife	nmod

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

Option 4

a rope and his knife tied round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 knife	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knife	nmod:poss
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rope	conj
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rope	acl
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a rope and his knife not said here				round property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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