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title: To what distance did Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa pursue the two e… — Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what distance did Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa pursue the two elephants' tracks? Exam question 2 of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depe
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# Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

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To what distance did Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa pursue the two elephants' tracks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** distance, Petersen · **What happens:** do, pursue

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» 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/628-pg236-part29/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:e2:1
# text = To what distance did Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa pursue the two elephants' tracks?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | distance |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pursue** | present | Petersen and Machua |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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fifteen miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:e2:o1:1
# text = fifteen miles
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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twenty miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:e2:o2:1
# text = twenty miles
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	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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across the whole Garo country and far down the river valley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:e2:o3:1
# text = across the whole Garo country and far down the river valley
1	across	across	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Garo	Garo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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twelve miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:e2:o4:1
# text = twelve miles
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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