Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

What did Nagaina state as her reason for wishing the house emptied?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: do, wish, empty · To what, where: Nagaina state, house

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 state	compound
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 reason	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reason	nmod:poss
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 wishing	mark
9	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 reason	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wishing	obj
12	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wishing	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		Nagaina state	as her reason	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	wish	gerund	her reason not said here	the house		tree rules
3	empty not said to happen	participle	her reason not said here			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

The eggs needed room and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 quiet	cc
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	the eggs	room					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=Theme

Option 2

The eggs wanted more space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the eggs	more space					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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