Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…

Cuz, what's the rule if people argue about a cub getting in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cuz, people, cub · What happens: be, argue, get in · To what, where: rule

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rule	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 rule	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rule	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rule	det
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 argue	mark
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 argue	nsubj
9	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rule	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 cub	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cub	det
12	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 argue	obl
13	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 cub	acl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 getting	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Cuz	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cuz	the rule		tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree a condition, not said to happen	present	people		about a cub	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about cub=Topic
3	get in	gerund	a cub not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

two non-parents must speak for him and the Pack must agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 non-parents	nummod
2	non-parents	non-parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 speak	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 agree	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Pack	det
9	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 agree	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 agree	aux
11	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 speak	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	must	two non-parents					for him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	agree speech: agree	must	the Pack						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

two non-parents must speak for him before the whole Pack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 non-parents	nummod
2	non-parents	non-parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 speak	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	10 Pack	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pack	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Pack	amod
10	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	must	two non-parents				before the whole Pack	for him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

two wolves must argue the case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 wolves	nummod
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 argue	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 argue	aux
4	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	must	two wolves	the case					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

two non-parents must speak for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 non-parents	nummod
2	non-parents	non-parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 speak	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	must	two non-parents					for him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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