Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…
Which creature is identified in the text as the one who related the account of the seals at Novastoshnah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: identify, relate, account · To what, where: creature, text, account, seals
This is exam question 2 of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identified | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 identified | aux:pass |
| 4 | identified | identify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identified | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identified | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 related | nsubj |
| 12 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 account | det |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 related | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 seals | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seals | det |
| 17 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 account | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Novastoshnah | case |
| 19 | Novastoshnah | Novastoshnah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seals | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 identified | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present · passive | which creature | the text | as the one | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as one=Attribute | |||
| 2 | relate | past | the one | the account of the seals at Novastoshnah | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | the seals at Novastoshnah | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
The Winter Wren
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wren | det |
| 2 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wren | compound |
| 3 | Wren | Wren | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Limmershin, the Winter Wren
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Limmershin | Limmershin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wren | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wren | det |
| 4 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wren | compound |
| 5 | Wren | Wren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Limmershin | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Limmershin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Limmershin | Limmershin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Chil, the Kite of the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chil | Chil | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kite | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kite | det |
| 4 | Kite | Kite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chil | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Kite | nmod |
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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