Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…
lol, what was Toomai's excuse for the corn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: excuse
This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 excuse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 excuse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 excuse | cop |
| 5 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 excuse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Toomai | case |
| 7 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 corn | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corn | det |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 excuse | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 excuse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Toomai's excuse | for the corn | 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 · ✓ the right answer
melons, not green corn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 corn | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 green | advmod |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 corn | amod |
| 5 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 melons | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bag of green beans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 beans | case |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beans | amod |
| 5 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
green peas, not corn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peas | amod |
| 2 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 corn | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 corn | advmod |
| 5 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
melons, the trick was for melons, not green corn from the fields
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 melons | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trick | det |
| 4 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melons | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 melons | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 melons | case |
| 7 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 melons | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 corn | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 corn | advmod |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 corn | amod |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 melons | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 fields | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fields | det |
| 14 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 corn | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the trick | for melons | tree rules |
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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