Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Peterse…

wait so four annas, is that like real money?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: four annas, that

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 626 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Petersen Sahib praises Little Toomai, and Kala Nag breaks loose at night» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 four	advmod
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 annas	nummod
4	annas	anna	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 that	cop
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 wait	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 money	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 money	amod
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	four annas				like real money	tree rules
2	is a	present		that					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

yeah, a silver coin, eight to a rupee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 coin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coin	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eight	punct
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 coin	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 rupee	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rupee	det
10	rupee	rupee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eight	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah it's paper money from the sahib's office, worth more than a rupee

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 money	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 money	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 money	cop
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	compound
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 office	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sahib	det
8	sahib	sahib	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 office	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 sahib	case
10	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
12	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 more	amod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 money	parataxis
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 rupee	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rupee	det
16	rupee	rupee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	paper money		the sahib's office			tree rules

Option 3

yeah, it's an old coin, and there are sixteen annas in each rupee, so it's a small sum

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 coin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coin	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coin	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 are	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coin	parataxis
12	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 annas	nummod
13	annas	anna	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 rupee	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 rupee	det
16	rupee	rupee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 annas	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sum	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 sum	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sum	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sum	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sum	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sum	amod
23	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old coin and a small sum		tree rules
2	does	present	sixteen annas in each rupee		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	rupee	a small sum		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, old Indian coins, sixteen to a rupee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 coins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coins	amod
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coins	amod
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sixteen	punct
7	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 coins	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 rupee	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rupee	det
10	rupee	rupee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sixteen	nmod

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

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