Exam question 1 · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…
In what location did Rikki-tikki discover the concealed cobra eggs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location, Rikki tikki · What happens: do, discover, conceal · To what, where: concealed cobra eggs
This is exam question 1 of lesson 623 «Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the cobra eggs, saves Teddy, and kills Nagaina» 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 | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tikki | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rikki | punct |
| 7 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discover | nsubj |
| 8 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eggs | det |
| 10 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 eggs | amod |
| 11 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eggs | compound |
| 12 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 discover | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | location | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | discover | present | Rikki tikki | the concealed cobra eggs | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conceal | participle | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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
Hidden in the litter of dry straw just above the melon patch by the wall
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 litter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 litter | det |
| 4 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hidden | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 straw | case |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 straw | amod |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 litter | nmod |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 patch | advmod |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 patch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 patch | det |
| 11 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 patch | compound |
| 12 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 litter | nmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | the litter of dry straw above the melon patch | by the wall | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in litter=Location |
Option 2
Beneath the old straw bedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 5 bedding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bedding | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bedding | amod |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bedding | compound |
| 5 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Among the litter above the melons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 litter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 litter | det |
| 3 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 melons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 melons | det |
| 6 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 litter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Among the litter above the melons in the garden bed by the veranda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 litter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 litter | det |
| 3 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 melons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 melons | det |
| 6 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 litter | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bed | compound |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 melons | nmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 veranda | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 veranda | det |
| 13 | veranda | veranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 litter | 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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