Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Specify the implement by which the elephant is directed by its driver.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, implement · What happens: specify, direct · To what, where: implement, elephant

This is exam question 3 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 implement	det
3	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 directed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elephant	det
7	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 directed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 directed	aux:pass
9	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 implement	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 driver	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 driver	nmod:poss
12	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 directed	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the implement					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent implement=Theme
2	direct	present · passive	the implement	the elephant				by elephant's driver	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Theme by driver=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 sharp iron ankus the driver holds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ankus	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ankus	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ankus	compound
4	ankus	ankus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holds	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holds	nsubj
7	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the sharp iron ankus						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the iron ankus of the driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ankus	det
2	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ankus	amod
3	ankus	ankus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 driver	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ankus	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the ankus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the goad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goad	det
2	goad	goad	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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