Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

Identify the question which provoked the universal response of "Hush!" from the relations of the Elephant's Child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, question · What happens: identify, provoke · To what, where: question, relations, universal response

This is exam question 1 of lesson 79 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» 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 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 provoked	nsubj
5	provoked	provoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 question	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 response	det
7	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 response	amod
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 provoked	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Hush	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Hush	punct
11	Hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 relations	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 relations	det
16	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 Child	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Elephant	det
19	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Child	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Elephant	case
21	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 relations	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the question		the relations of the Elephant's Child			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	provoke	past	the question	the universal response of Hush					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus response=Experiencer

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 right answer

What the Crocodile has for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crocodile	det
3	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Crocodile					for dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The Python's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Python	det
2	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Python	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

How the Ostrich got her feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ostrich	det
3	Ostrich	Ostrich	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Ostrich	Ostrich's feathers					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus

Option 4

Melon rind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rind	compound
2	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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