Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…

Lol, why did the tiger back down from Mother Wolf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: tiger, Mother Wolf

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 down	advmod
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Wolf	case
10	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wolf	compound
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the tiger		Mother Wolf		down property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

she had the advantage of the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advantage	det
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advantage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	the advantage of the ground					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient

Option 2

she had the advantage of the ground, her fangs, and her cubs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advantage	det
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advantage	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fangs	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fangs	nmod:poss
10	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 advantage	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cubs	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cubs	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cubs	nmod:poss
14	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	the advantage of the ground and her fangs					tree rules

Option 3

she had the advantage of the ground and the whole Pack behind her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advantage	det
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advantage	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Pack	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pack	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Pack	amod
11	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Pack	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	the advantage of the ground					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient

Option 4

she had the wolves behind her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	the wolves					tree rules

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