Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question…

Specify the animal whose trumpeting the troop-horse forbids during the review.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, animal · What happens: specify, trumpet, forbid · To what, where: troop horse

This is exam question 3 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forbids	nsubj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 trumpeting	nmod:poss
5	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 animal	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
7	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horse	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 troop	punct
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trumpeting	obj
10	forbids	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Specify	ccomp
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 review	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 review	det
13	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forbids	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	trumpet	gerund		the troop horse		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	forbid	present	the animal		during the review	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 big grey elephant named Two Tails, standing at the lines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephant	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephant	amod
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 elephant	acl
6	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Tails	nummod
7	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 named	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 standing	punct
9	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 elephant	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 lines	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lines	det
12	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle	the big grey elephant not said here	Two Tails					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	stand	gerund	the big grey elephant not said here			the lines			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at line=Location

Option 2

Two Tails the elephant, who trumpets on the bare ground

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	7 trumpets	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tails	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trumpets	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 trumpets	nsubj
7	trumpets	trumpet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
10	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ground	amod
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trumpets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trumpet	present	Two Tails the elephant			the bare ground			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

Option 3

the camel at the lines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 camel	det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 lines	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lines	det
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 camel	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two Tails the elephant

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
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tails	nmod:unmarked

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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