Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

What did the forest sound like when they went through it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: sound, go · To what, where: forest

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sound	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nsubj
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past · do-support							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	go	past	they			forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location

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

Noisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Heavy and loud, like a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 loud	cc
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Heavy	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 storm	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heavy	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kala Nag was quiet, like smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 quiet	nsubj
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smoke	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 smoke	case
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quiet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kala					quiet property	tree rules

Option 4

Very loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 loud	advmod
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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