Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Bro, how long did the elephants keep stamping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephants · What happens: do, keep, stamp

This is test 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. 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elephants	det
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		Bro vocative; long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	the elephants		tree rules
3	stamp	gerund	the elephants not said here		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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

from the first drum-beat until well after the moon had set

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	6 beat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beat	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 beat	amod
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 drum	punct
6	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 set	mark
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 moon	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 moon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 set	aux
13	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 beat	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive	the first drum beat not said here	the moon					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 2

all morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

about two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

nearly three hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	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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