Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

Identify the item consumed without permission by the Rhinoceros upon his first appearance.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, item · What happens: identify, consume

This is exam question 1 of lesson 76 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» 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 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consumed	nsubj
4	consumed	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 permission	case
6	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Rhinoceros	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rhinoceros	det
9	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 appearance	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 appearance	nmod:poss
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 appearance	amod
13	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here					without permission; by the Rhinoceros; upon item's first appearance	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	consume	past	the item						vn consume-66 «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

Some currants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 currants	det
2	currants	currant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A cake measuring two feet across and three feet thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	measuring	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cake	acl
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 measuring	obj
6	across	across	ADV	_	3 measuring	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thick	cc
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 feet	nummod
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thick	obl:unmarked
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 measuring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund	a cake not said here	two feet				across property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value

Option 3

A pie two feet long and one foot thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pie	det
2	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	nsubj
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	obl:unmarked
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thick	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 foot	nummod
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thick	compound
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	conj

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

Option 4

A cake measuring three feet across and two feet thick, with currants on top

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thick	nsubj
3	measuring	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cake	acl
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 measuring	obj
6	across	across	ADV	_	3 measuring	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feet	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 feet	nummod
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thick	obl
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 currants	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 currants	case
13	currants	currant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thick	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 currants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund	a cake not said here	three feet				across property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value

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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