Test 6 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Lol, what got smeared on Toomai's forehead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: smear · To what, where: forehead

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 smeared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smeared	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 smeared	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smeared	aux:pass
5	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 forehead	case
7	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 forehead	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Toomai	case
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smeared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 smeared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	past · passive				Toomai's forehead			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on 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

red mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mud	amod
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

turmeric and oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turmeric	turmeric	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 oil	cc
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turmeric	conj

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

Option 3

fresh blood of a jungle-cock smeared on his brow by Machua

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	of	of	ADP	_	7 cock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cock	det
5	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cock	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 jungle	punct
7	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blood	nmod
8	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cock	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 brow	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brow	nmod:poss
11	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smeared	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Machua	case
13	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	participle		a jungle cock not said here		his brow		by Machua	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on brow=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

jungle-cock blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cock	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 jungle	punct
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blood	compound
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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