Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

State the duration, in years, of the elephant's service to the Government of India.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, elephant · What happens: state, service · To what, where: duration

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 State	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 service	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 service	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 service	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 elephant	case
12	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Government	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Government	det
15	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 service	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 India	case
17	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Government	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the duration			year	of the elephant's service to the Government of India	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	service		the elephant					to the Government of India	nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 right answer

forty-seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 forty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

forty-two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 forty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

thirty-seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

forty-seven years and counting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 forty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 counting	cc
6	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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