Test 1 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the P…

yo bro, why was Shere Khan roaring all night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Shere · What happens: roar

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 602 «Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the Pack, grows up, and learns that Shere Khan is his enemy» 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	yo	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng	2 bro	nmod:poss
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roaring	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bro	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 bro	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 roaring	aux
6	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 roaring	nsubj
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Shere	flat
8	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roaring	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 roaring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past · progressive	Shere				night	yo's bro vocative	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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

cause he lost a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	cause	a fight					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

Option 2

cause the wolves kept the cub for themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wolves	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cub	det
6	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	keep	past	the cause wolves	the cub				for wolves = wolf	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause Mowgli wasnt handed over to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wasnt	compound
3	wasnt	wasnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obj
4	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wasnt	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	4 handed	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	Mowgli wasnt					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wasnt=Patient
2	hand over	participle		Mowgli wasnt not said here	him = he				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination

Option 4

cause he wanted the cub for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cub	det
5	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cause	the cub				for dinner	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cub=Theme

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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