Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…
what's a keddah, though?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: keddah
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keddah | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 keddah | det |
| 4 | keddah | keddah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 though | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 1 what | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a keddah | 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
a stockade for catching wild elephants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stockade | det |
| 2 | stockade | stockade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 catching | mark |
| 4 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stockade | acl |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elephants | amod |
| 6 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 catching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | gerund | a stockade not said here | wild elephants | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme |
Option 2
a big hut where elephants are fed grain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hut | amod |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 fed | advmod |
| 5 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fed | aux:pass |
| 7 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hut | acl:relcl |
| 8 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present · passive | elephants | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient grain=Theme |
Option 3
a wooden corral for keeping tame horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corral | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 corral | amod |
| 3 | corral | corral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 keeping | mark |
| 5 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 corral | acl |
| 6 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horses | amod |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeping | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | a wooden corral not said here | tame horses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
Option 4
a wild camp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 camp | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 camp | amod |
| 3 | camp | camp | 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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