Test 6 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the P…

dude, why did Mowgli stare at wolves?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: stare

This is test 6 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stare	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stare	aux
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stare	nsubj
6	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 wolves	case
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stare	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · do-support	Mowgli					at wolves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wolf=Theme

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

to bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 bite	mark
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	to-infinitive							vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to show the Pack he is not afraid of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pack	det
4	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 afraid	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 afraid	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 afraid	advmod
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 show	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		the Pack					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=Recipient
2	not is	present	he					of them = they; afraid property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

just for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	3 fun	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 fun	case
3	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

for a dare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 dare	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dare	det
3	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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