Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Which bird's call was said to resemble the blows of a small hammer upon copper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird, small hammer · What happens: say, resemble, call, blow · To what, where: call, blows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux:pass
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 resemble	mark
8	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blows	det
10	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 resemble	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 hammer	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hammer	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hammer	amod
14	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blows	nmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 copper	case
16	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hammer	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		which bird's call	tree rules
2	resemble	to-infinitive		the blows of a small hammer upon copper	tree rules
3	call		which bird		nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4	blow		a small hammer upon copper		nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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 Coppersmith, the loud bird of the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Coppersmith	det
2	Coppersmith	Coppersmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Coppersmith	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod

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

Option 2

The kingfisher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kingfisher	det
2	kingfisher	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The tailorbird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailorbird	det
2	tailorbird	tailorbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Coppersmith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Coppersmith	det
2	Coppersmith	Coppersmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	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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