Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…

Upon what occasion does the narrator's tent collapse during the night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: do, collapse · To what, where: tent collapse

This is exam question 2 of lesson 629 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Shiva, then a wrecked tent and a noisy night among the army animals» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collapse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 narrator	case
8	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collapse	compound
9	collapse	collapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the narrator's tent collapse			night	upon what occasion	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collapse=Eventuality
2	collapse		the narrator						nom collapse «state intransitive»: poss=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

upon the sudden collision of a laden camel with the tent's central pole and ropes

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 collision	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 collision	det
3	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 collision	amod
4	collision	collision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 camel	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 camel	det
7	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 camel	amod
8	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collision	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	14 pole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tent	det
11	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pole	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 tent	case
13	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pole	amod
14	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collision	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ropes	cc
16	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pole	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lade	participle							tree rules
2	collide		a laden camel					with the tent's central pole and ropes	nom collision «event intransitive»: of=agent with=obl

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

upon the collision of a camel with its structure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 collision	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 collision	det
3	collision	collision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 camel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 camel	det
6	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 collision	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 structure	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 structure	nmod:poss
9	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 camel	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collide		a camel with camel's structure						nom collision «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

after the rain soaked the canvas and poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	3 rain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaked	obl
4	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 canvas	det
6	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poles	cc
8	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 canvas	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	participle		the canvas and poles			after the rain		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent canvas=Source

Option 4

when a heavy baggage camel crashed into the whole canvas structure of the tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 crashed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camel	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 camel	amod
4	baggage	baggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camel	compound
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crashed	nsubj
6	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 structure	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 structure	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 structure	amod
10	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 structure	compound
11	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crashed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tent	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tent	det
14	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 structure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past	a heavy baggage camel					into the whole canvas structure of the tent result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into structure=Result

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