Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

Which creature does the elephant regard as the most frightening of all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: do · To what, where: elephant regard

This is exam question 3 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 regard	det
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regard	compound
6	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 frightening	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frightening	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 frightening	advmod
10	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 regard	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 frightening	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which creature	the elephant regard					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

a little barking dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a hungry tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tiger	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tiger	amod
3	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a small noisy bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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