Test 7 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the P…

ok but why did he pull out thorns?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: pull out · To what, where: thorns

This is test 7 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 pull	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 pull	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pull	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pull	nsubj
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 pull	compound:prt
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past · do-support	he	thorns					tree rules

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

burs annoy the wolves at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burs	bur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 annoy	nsubj
2	annoy	annoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 annoy	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 annoy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	annoy	present	burs	the wolves			night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolf=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

because thorns stick in the coats of all wolves who sleep in the caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 stick	mark
2	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	nsubj
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 coats	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coats	det
6	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wolves	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wolves	det
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coats	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sleep	nsubj
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wolves	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 caves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 caves	det
14	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	thorns			the coats of all wolves			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in coat=Destination
2	sleep	present	all wolves			the caves			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location

Option 3

the thorns hurt the wolves' fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thorns	det
2	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fur	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 wolves	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	the thorns	the wolves's fur					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fur=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wolves hate thorns in their coats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 coats	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coats	nmod:poss
6	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	wolves	thorns		wolves's coats			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thorn=Stimulus

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