Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

No way, the ground at the top looked like what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ground · What happens: look · To what, where: way

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 627 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai rides Kala Nag to the secret elephant gathering» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ground	nmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 looked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the ground at the top	no way					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Soft and dusty, like sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sand	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dusty	cc
3	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Soft	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sand	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hard and trampled, like brick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brick	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trampled	cc
3	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hard	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brick	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 brick	case
6	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Hard and trampled down, flat and smooth, like the floor of an old stone temple somewhere

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 floor	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trampled	cc
3	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hard	conj
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 trampled	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flat	punct
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hard	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 smooth	cc
8	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hard	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 floor	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 temple	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 temple	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 temple	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 temple	compound
17	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	nmod
18	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 temple	advmod

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

Option 4

Rough and bumpy, like stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bumpy	cc
3	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rough	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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