Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

In which location did Nag coil himself before the attack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nag · What happens: coil · To what, where: Nag, location

This is exam question 1 of lesson 622 «The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhears the cobras' plot and waits to strike» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coil	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coil	aux
5	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coil	nsubj
6	coil	coil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 coil	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 attack	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 attack	det
10	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coil	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 coil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coil	past · do-support	Nag	Nag		which location	before the attack		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in location=Source before attack=Trajectory

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 right answer

Round the bulge of the water jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADP	_	3 bulge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulge	det
3	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 jar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jar	compound
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulge	nmod

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

Option 2

Under the rim of the old pan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 rim	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rim	det
3	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 pan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pan	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pan	amod
7	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rim	nmod

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

Option 3

Round the bulge of the water jar, hidden in the dark corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADP	_	3 bulge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulge	det
3	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 jar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jar	compound
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulge	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hidden	punct
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bulge	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 corner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 corner	amod
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the dark corner			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

Option 4

Round the bulge of the water jar near the bathroom door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADP	_	3 bulge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulge	det
3	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 jar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jar	compound
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulge	nmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	compound
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jar	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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