Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

Identify the three domestic animals which approached the Camel with a request that he undertake labour.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, three domestic animals, he · What happens: identify, approach, undertake · To what, where: three domestic animals, Camel, labour

This is exam question 1 of lesson 75 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» 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	5 animals	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 animals	nummod
4	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 approached	nsubj
7	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Camel	det
9	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 approached	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 request	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 request	det
12	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 approached	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 undertake	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 undertake	nsubj
15	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 request	acl
16	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 undertake	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the three domestic animals		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	approach	past	the three domestic animals	the Camel	with a request	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent camel=Theme with request=Instrument
3	undertake	infinitive	he	labour		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=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 Horse, the Dog, the Ox and the Man all asked him at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Dog	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dog	det
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ox	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ox	det
8	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Man	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Man	det
11	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ox	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Horse and the Dog		Man			all property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Horse, the Dog and the Ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Dog	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dog	det
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Ox	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ox	det
8	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	conj

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

Option 3

The Horse, the Whale and Ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Whale	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Whale	det
5	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Ox	cc
7	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	conj

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

Option 4

The Dog, the Man and the Ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Man	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dog	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Ox	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ox	det
8	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dog	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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