Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Arre, what does the salute sound like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arre · What happens: sound

This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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	Arre	Arre	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sound	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Arre	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 sound	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sound	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salute	det
6	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sound	nsubj
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	like	like	INTJ	_	7 sound	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present · do-support	Arre						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

a crashing trumpet-peal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 peal	det
2	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 peal	amod
3	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peal	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 trumpet	punct
5	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	gerund							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a great crashing trumpet-peal from all the herd at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peal	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peal	amod
3	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 peal	amod
4	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peal	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 trumpet	punct
6	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 herd	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 herd	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 herd	det
10	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peal	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 peal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	gerund							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a deep rolling growl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 growl	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 growl	amod
3	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growl	compound
4	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a faint bugle call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 call	det
2	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
3	bugle	bugle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	compound
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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