Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Indicate the location at which the Emperor Theodore was observed lying dead.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: indicate, observe, lie · To what, where: location, Emperor Theodore

This is exam question 4 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 observed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Theodore	det
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Theodore	compound
8	Theodore	Theodore	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 observed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 observed	aux:pass
10	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Indicate	parataxis
11	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 observed	xcomp
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lying	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the location		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot location=Topic
2	observe	past · passive		the Emperor Theodore		tree rules
3	lie	gerund			dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Magdala

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magdala	Magdala	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in the palace at Magdala on the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Magdala	case
5	Magdala	Magdala	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 palace	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 palace	nmod

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

Option 3

the mountain fortress of Magdala

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fortress	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fortress	compound
3	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Magdala	case
5	Magdala	Magdala	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fortress	nmod

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

Option 4

Gondar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gondar	Gondar	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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