Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

To what distance did Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa pursue the two elephants' tracks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: distance, Petersen · What happens: do, pursue

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pursue	nsubj
6	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Petersen	flat
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Machua	cc
8	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Petersen	conj
9	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Machua	flat
10	pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elephants	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 elephants	nummod
13	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tracks	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 elephants	case
15	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	distance						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pursue	present	Petersen and Machua						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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

fifteen miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

twenty miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

across the whole Garo country and far down the river valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	5 country	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 country	amod
4	Garo	Garo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 country	compound
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 far	cc
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 country	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	11 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 valley	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 valley	compound
11	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 far	obl

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

Option 4

twelve miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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