Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Peterse…

what's a guddee, like in that verse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: guddee

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 guddee	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guddee	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 guddee	det
4	guddee	guddee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 verse	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 verse	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 verse	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 verse	det
9	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guddee	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 guddee	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a guddee and that verse					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

a little drum stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	compound
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a soft cloth for the saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloth	det
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloth	amod
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 saddle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cloth	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a cushioned seat, like a king's throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seat	det
2	cushioned	cushion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seat	amod
3	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 throne	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 throne	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throne	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cushion	participle							tree rules

Option 4

a stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stool	det
2	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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