Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…
Who was responsible for discharging the firearm that ended Nag's life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: firearm · What happens: be, discharge, end · To what, where: firearm, life
This is exam question 4 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 responsible | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 responsible | cop |
| 3 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 discharging | mark |
| 5 | discharging | discharge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 responsible | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 firearm | det |
| 7 | firearm | firearm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discharging | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ended | nsubj |
| 9 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 firearm | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Nag | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ended | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 responsible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | responsible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | discharge | gerund | the firearm | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=Theme | |||||
| 3 | end | past | the firearm | Nag's life | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality |
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 big man of the village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old man of the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The big man of the household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 household | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 household | det |
| 6 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The man of the family house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | 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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