Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Mate, how many years did Kala Nag work for the Government, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many years · What happens: work, innit

This is test 2 · ★ 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 work	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 work	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 work	aux
7	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 work	compound
8	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Kala	flat
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 Government	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Government	det
12	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past · do-support	many years					for the Government	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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

forty-seven years for the Government

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seven	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Government	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Government	det
7	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

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

Option 2

forty-seven years of hard service for the Government

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seven	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 service	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 service	amod
7	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 Government	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Government	det
10	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 service	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

forty-seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 forty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

thirty-seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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