Exam question 4 · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

At what hour did the booming of the elephants cease?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephants · What happens: do, cease · To what, where: booming

This is exam question 4 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hour	nsubj
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 booming	det
6	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 cease	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elephants	det
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cease	nsubj
10	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 booming	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the booming			hour		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booming=Eventuality
2	cease	present	the elephants	the booming not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector booming=Eventuality

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

at sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

upon the first light of dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 light	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light			dawn					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

when the moon went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the moon					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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