Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Mate, what's that stick Little Toomai talks about, the one worn smooth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, Little Toomai, one · What happens: be, talk about, wear · To what, where: one, smooth

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 stick	obj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stick	cop
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 stick	nsubj
6	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Toomai	amod
8	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 talks	nsubj
9	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stick	acl:relcl
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 talks	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talks	obl
14	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 one	acl
15	smooth	smooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 worn	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		Mate vocative; stick property	tree rules
2	talk about	present	Little Toomai	the one	about property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear	participle	the one not said here	smooth		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smooth=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

an ankus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind 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 2

a bamboo pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pole	det
2	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pole	compound
3	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a sharp iron hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hook	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hook	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hook	compound
4	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a cane rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rod	det
2	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rod	compound
3	rod	rod	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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