Exam question 4 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

State, in accordance with established biology, the principal substance stored within the hump of a camel.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: establish, store · To what, where: principal substance

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 accordance	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 accordance	case
4	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 biology	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 biology	amod
7	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accordance	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 substance	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 substance	det
10	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 substance	amod
11	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 biology	appos
12	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 substance	acl
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 hump	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hump	det
15	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stored	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 camel	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 camel	det
18	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hump	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
2	store	participle		the principal substance not said here				within the hump of a camel	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Water, which he drinks when thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drinks	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 drinks	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drinks	nsubj
5	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 thirsty	mark
7	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drinks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Water					thirsty property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fat, upon which the animal may draw when food is scarce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 draw	punct
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 draw	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 draw	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 draw	aux
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fat	acl:relcl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 scarce	mark
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scarce	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 scarce	cop
12	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 draw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	may	the animal					upon Fat	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	food					scarce property	tree rules

Option 3

Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Sand, which keeps it cool at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	obj
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keeps	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Sand	it			night	cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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