Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Bro, who does Big Toomai reckon Kala Nag's scared of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: reckon

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 reckon	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
6	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Big	flat
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 scared	nmod:poss
9	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Kala	flat
10	's	's	PART	_	8 Kala	case
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reckon	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 scared	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support						Bro vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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

only Big Toomai, who held his ankus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 Big	advmod
2	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 held	nsubj
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Big	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ankus	nmod:poss
8	ankus	ankus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Big	Big's ankus					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ankus=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

only Big Toomai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	3 Toomai	advmod
2	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Toomai	amod
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

only Big Toomai and no other man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	3 Toomai	advmod
2	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Toomai	amod
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 man	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 man	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Toomai	conj

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

Option 4

the old driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 driver	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 driver	amod
3	driver	driver	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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