Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Identify the location to which the cetacean was directed by the small 'Stute Fish in pursuit of a human meal.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, small Stute Fish · What happens: identify, direct, pursue · To what, where: location, cetacean, pursuit, human meal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» 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 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 directed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cetacean	det
7	cetacean	cetacean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 directed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 directed	aux:pass
9	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 location	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	15 Fish	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fish	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Fish	amod
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 Stute	punct
14	Stute	Stute	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fish	compound
15	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 directed	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 pursuit	case
17	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 directed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 meal	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 meal	det
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meal	amod
21	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pursuit	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	direct	past · passive	the small Stute Fish	the cetacean	pursuit of a human meal	to the location	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in pursuit=Eventuality
3	pursue			a human meal			nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Latitude forty south, longitude fifty east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Latitude	flat
3	south	south	ADV	_	1 Latitude	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 east	punct
5	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 east	compound
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 longitude	flat
7	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Latitude	conj

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

Option 2

Off Iceland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADP	_	2 Iceland	case
2	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Equator	det
2	Equator	Equator	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Latitude fifty north, longitude forty west

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Latitude	flat
3	north	north	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 west	punct
5	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 west	compound
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 longitude	flat
7	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Latitude	conj

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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