Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Identify the name, signifying Black Snake, borne by the elephant described.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, signify, bear, describe · To what, where: name, Black Snake, elephant

This is exam question 1 of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 signifying	punct
5	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
6	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Snake	amod
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 signifying	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 borne	punct
9	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 signifying	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 elephant	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 elephant	det
12	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borne	obl
13	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 elephant	acl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the name		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	signify	gerund	you not said here	Black Snake		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot snake=Theme
3	bear	participle	you not said here		by the elephant	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	describe	participle		the elephant not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

Mohan Ram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mohan	Mohan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Ram	Ram	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mohan	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kala Nag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat

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

Option 3

Kala Nag Raja

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat

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

Option 4

Bahadur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bahadur	bahadur	NOUN	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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