Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…
Which substance was used to mark the forehead of the young initiate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: use, mark · To what, where: substance, forehead
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 substance | det |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 mark | mark |
| 6 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forehead | det |
| 8 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mark | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 initiate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 initiate | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 initiate | amod |
| 12 | initiate | initiate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forehead | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | which substance | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mark | to-infinitive | the forehead of the young initiate | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent forehead=Destination |
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
blood from a jungle-cock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cock | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cock | det |
| 4 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cock | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 jungle | punct |
| 6 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 blood | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ash from a burnt leaf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 leaf | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 leaf | det |
| 4 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaf | amod |
| 5 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ash | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
oil from a wild boar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 boar | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boar | det |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boar | amod |
| 5 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 oil | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
fresh blood taken from a jungle-cock killed at the dance-place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blood | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blood | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 6 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cock | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jungle | punct |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cock | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 12 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dance | punct |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | participle | fresh blood not said here | from a jungle cock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from cock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | participle | a jungle cock not said here | the dance place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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