Exam question 1 · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…
Which animal is described in the passage as a "Pachydermatous Anachronism"?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: describe · To what, where: animal, passage
This is exam question 1 of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 described | aux:pass |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 passage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 passage | det |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Anachronism | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Anachronism | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pachydermatous | punct |
| 11 | Pachydermatous | Pachydermatous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Anachronism | compound |
| 12 | Anachronism | Anachronism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passage | nmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Anachronism | punct |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | which animal | the passage as a Pachydermatous Anachronism | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme |
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 mule Billy who is a donkey's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mule | det |
| 2 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mule | appos |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 son | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 donkey | det |
| 7 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 donkey | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Billy | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Billy | a donkey's son | tree rules |
Option 2
Billy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two Tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Tails | nummod |
| 2 | Tails | tail | 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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