Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question…

Identify the officer who, in the concluding dialogue, explains the chain of obedience to the chief.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, officer · What happens: identify, conclude, explain · To what, where: officer, chain, chief

This is exam question 2 of lesson 632 «Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question orders before the big parade» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 officer	det
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 explains	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dialogue	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 dialogue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dialogue	det
8	concluding	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 dialogue	amod
9	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explains	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dialogue	punct
11	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 officer	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chain	det
13	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explains	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 obedience	case
15	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chain	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 chief	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chief	det
18	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explains	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the officer		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent officer=Theme
2	conclude	gerund				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	explain speech: assert	present	the officer	the chain of obedience	the chief	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chain=Topic to chief=Recipient

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 young native officer who commands the second squadron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 officer	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 officer	amod
3	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 officer	amod
4	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 commands	nsubj
6	commands	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 officer	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 squadron	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 squadron	amod
9	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 commands	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	present	the young native officer	the second squadron					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent squadron=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the native officer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 officer	det
2	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 officer	amod
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the native officer of the Viceroy's own escort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 officer	det
2	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 officer	amod
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 escort	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Viceroy	det
6	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 escort	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Viceroy	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 escort	amod
9	escort	escort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	nmod

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

Option 4

the troop-horse officer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 officer	det
2	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 troop	punct
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 officer	compound
5	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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