Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Mad question, how tall was Little Toomai, in feet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tall Little Toomai

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Toomai	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Toomai	amod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Toomai	cop
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Toomai	amod
8	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 question	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 feet	case
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 question	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		tall Little Toomai					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

a yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

three feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

four feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

two feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	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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