Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Bruv, what did Little Toomai call Kala Nag to his face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little · What happens: do, call · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 call	nsubj
6	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Little	flat
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
9	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Kala	flat
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 face	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	Little		Kala's face				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to face=Recipient

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

old pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pig	amod
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a lazy old fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fool	det
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fool	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fool	amod
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a fat old pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pig	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pig	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pig	amod
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

fat fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fool	amod
2	fool	fool	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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