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description: Identify the officer who, in the concluding dialogue, explains the chain of obedience to the chief. Exam question 2 of lesson 632 «Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question orders before the big parade» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question…

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Identify the officer who, in the concluding dialogue, explains the chain of obedience to the chief.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, officer · **What happens:** identify, conclude, explain · **To what, where:** officer, chain, chief

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 632 «Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question orders before the big parade» 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/632-pg236-part33/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:e2:1
# text = Identify the officer who, in the concluding dialogue, explains the chain of obedience to the chief.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	concluding	conclude	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 officer |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent officer=Theme |
| 2 | **conclude** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the officer | the chain of obedience | the chief |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chain=Topic to chief=Recipient |

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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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the young native officer who commands the second squadron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:e2:o1:1
# text = the young native officer who commands the second squadron
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	commands	command	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | present | the young native officer | the second squadron |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent squadron=Eventuality |

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

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the native officer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:e2:o2:1
# text = the native officer
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the native officer of the Viceroy's own escort

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:e2:o3:1
# text = the native officer of the Viceroy's own escort
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the troop-horse officer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:e2:o4:1
# text = the troop-horse officer
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	officer	officer	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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