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title: Identify the name, signifying Black Snake, borne by the elephant des… — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the name, signifying Black Snake, borne by the elephant described. Exam question 1 of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

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Identify the name, signifying Black Snake, borne by the elephant described.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, signify, bear, describe · **To what, where:** name, Black Snake, elephant

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» 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/624-pg236-part25/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:e1:1
# text = Identify the name, signifying Black Snake, borne by the elephant described.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the name |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **signify** | gerund | you *not said here* | Black Snake |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot snake=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the elephant | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **describe** | participle |  | the elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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Mohan Ram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:e1:o1:1
# text = Mohan Ram
1	Mohan	Mohan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Ram	Ram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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Kala Nag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:e1:o2:1
# text = Kala Nag
1	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kala Nag Raja

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:e1:o3:1
# text = Kala Nag Raja
1	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bahadur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:e1:o4:1
# text = Bahadur
1	Bahadur	bahadur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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