Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

What was the approximate stature of the child, as remarked by Petersen Sahib in reference to a picket-pin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, remark · To what, where: approximate stature, picket pin, reference

This is exam question 4 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	5 stature	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stature	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stature	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stature	amod
5	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stature	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remarked	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 remarked	mark
11	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stature	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Petersen	case
13	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 remarked	obl:agent
14	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Petersen	flat
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 reference	case
16	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remarked	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 pin	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pin	det
19	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pin	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 picket	punct
21	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remarked	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stature	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the approximate stature				of the child	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle			a picket pin	reference			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to pin=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 right answer

smaller than a picket-pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 pin	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pin	det
4	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pin	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 picket	punct
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smaller	obl

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

Option 2

about the height of a stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADP	_	3 height	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 height	det
3	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stool	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stool	det
6	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 height	nmod

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

Option 3

smaller than a picket-pin used for the tents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 pin	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pin	det
4	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pin	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 picket	punct
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smaller	obl
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pin	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 tents	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tents	det
10	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a picket pin not said here				for the tents	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

as tall as a tent stake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 stake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stake	det
5	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stake	compound
6	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tall	obl

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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