Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Oi, where did the elephants die of cold and sunstroke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, elephants · What happens: do, die

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephants	det
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 die	nsubj
7	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cold	case
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 die	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sunstroke	cc
11	sunstroke	sunstroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cold	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Oi						tree rules
2	die	present	the elephants					of cold and sunstroke	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer

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

Kabul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Kandahar Pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kandahar	Kandahar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Pass	Pass	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kandahar	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ali Musjid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Musjid	Musjid	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ali	flat

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

Option 4

Khyber Pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Khyber	Khyber	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Pass	Pass	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Khyber	flat

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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