Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…

Mate, how did the young wolves feel about the bull deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, young wolves · What happens: do, feel

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 601 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over the man-cub and a hearing at the Council Rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolves	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolves	amod
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 deal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 deal	det
11	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deal	compound
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						tree rules
2	feel	present	the young wolves					about the bull deal	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about deal=Location

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

they were tired and sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sleepy	cc
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tired	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					tired property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 2

they were hungry and keen to eat the bull at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keen	cc
5	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keen	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bull	det
9	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		hungry property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here			tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	they not said here	the bull		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they were hungry and keen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keen	cc
5	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					hungry property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 4

they were scared of the deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 deal	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of the deal; scared property	tree rules

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