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title: According to the text, what was the weight of Sea Catch, as nearly a… — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the text, what was the weight of Sea Catch, as nearly as could be determined? Exam question 4 of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

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According to the text, what was the weight of Sea Catch, as nearly as could be determined?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** text · **What happens:** accord, be, determine · **To what, where:** weight

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/615-pg236-part16/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:e4:1
# text = According to the text, what was the weight of Sea Catch, as nearly as could be determined?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Catch	Catch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the text | the weight |  |  |  | of Sea Catch | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  | accord the text | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nearly six hundred pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:e4:o1:1
# text = Nearly six hundred pounds
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nearly seven hundred pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:e4:o2:1
# text = Nearly seven hundred pounds
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two hundred pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:e4:o3:1
# text = Two hundred pounds
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nearly seven hundred pounds, as nearly as could be determined by the sealers and the narrator

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:e4:o4:1
# text = Nearly seven hundred pounds, as nearly as could be determined by the sealers and the narrator
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	11	cc	_	_
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	fixed	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sealers	sealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | could · passive | the sealers and the narrator | hundred pounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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**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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