Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

According to the text, what was the weight of Sea Catch, as nearly as could be determined?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: text · What happens: accord, be, determine · To what, where: weight

This is exam question 4 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 text	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 determined	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weight	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 weight	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 weight	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weight	det
9	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 text	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Catch	case
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Catch	compound
12	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 weight	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 determined	punct
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 determined	cc
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 as	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	14 as	fixed
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 determined	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 determined	aux:pass
19	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 determined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the text	the weight	of Sea Catch	tree rules
3	determine	could · passive			accord the text	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»

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

Nearly six hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nearly seven hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pounds	nummod
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nearly seven hundred pounds, as nearly as could be determined by the sealers and the narrator

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 determined	punct
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 determined	cc
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 as	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	6 as	fixed
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 determined	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	aux:pass
11	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pounds	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 sealers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sealers	det
14	sealers	sealer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 determined	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 narrator	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrator	det
17	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sealers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	could · passive	the sealers and the narrator	hundred pounds not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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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