Exam question 1 · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

What was the name conferred upon Little Toomai by Machua Appa upon his public elevation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Machua · What happens: be, confer, elevate · To what, where: name

This is exam question 1 of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 name	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 name	acl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Little	case
7	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conferred	obl:agent
8	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Little	flat
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Machua	case
10	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 conferred	obl
11	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Machua	flat
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 elevation	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 elevation	nmod:poss
14	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 elevation	amod
15	elevation	elevation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conferred	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the name		tree rules
2	confer	participle		the name not said here	by Machua; upon Machua's public elevation	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	elevate		Machua			nom elevation «event transitive»: poss=agent

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

Toomai of the Elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Elephants	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Elephants	det
4	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Toomai	nmod

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

Option 2

Toomai of the Herds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Herds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Herds	det
4	Herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Toomai	nmod

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

Option 3

Toomai of the Forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Forest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Forest	det
4	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Toomai	nmod

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

Option 4

Toomai of the Elephants, Child of the Garo Hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Elephants	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Elephants	det
4	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Toomai	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Child	punct
6	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Toomai	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Hills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hills	det
9	Garo	Garo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Hills	compound
10	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Child	nmod

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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