Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

Identify the location to which the sea lion directs Kotick, and state the distance which the swim entails according to the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sea lion, distance · What happens: identify, direct, state, entail, accord · To what, where: location, Kotick, distance

This is exam question 3 of lesson 617 «Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 directs	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lion	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lion	compound
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 directs	nsubj
9	directs	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 location	acl:relcl
10	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 directs	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 state	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 state	cc
13	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 distance	det
15	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 state	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 entails	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 entails	det
18	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entails	compound
19	entails	entail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 distance	nmod
20	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 passage	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 according	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 passage	det
23	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entails	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	direct	present	the sea lion	Kotick	to the location	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kotick=Theme
3	state speech: other	infinitive		the distance		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent distance=Topic
4	entail		the distance		accord the passage	tree rules
5	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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 Salt House, a distance of four miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 House	det
2	Salt	Salt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 House	compound
3	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 distance	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 House	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 miles	case
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 miles	nummod
9	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 distance	nmod

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

Option 2

Walrus Islet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walrus	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Walrus Islet, a distance of six miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walrus	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 distance	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walrus	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 miles	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 miles	nummod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 distance	nmod

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

Option 4

Walrus Islet, about two miles away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walrus	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 miles	punct
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walrus	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 miles	advmod

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

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