Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

What was the designation of the official seated beneath the tree who disbursed wages to the drivers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: official seated tree · What happens: be, seat, disburse · To what, where: designation, wages, drivers

This is exam question 2 of lesson 625 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded, then brought before Petersen Sahib» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 designation	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 designation	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 designation	det
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
7	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
8	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tree	amod
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designation	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 disbursed	nsubj
13	disbursed	disburse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tree	acl:relcl
14	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 disbursed	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 drivers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 drivers	det
17	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 disbursed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 designation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the designation		of the official seated tree	tree rules
2	seat	participle					vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	disburse	past	the official seated tree	wages	the drivers		vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wage=Theme to driver=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

the camp tracker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tracker	det
2	camp	camp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tracker	amod
3	tracker	tracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a native clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a village headman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 headman	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 headman	compound
3	headman	headman	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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