Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the P…

is Mowgli scared of the villagers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	compound
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 villagers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 villagers	det
6	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of the villagers; scared property	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 · ← Mova's choice

he has a deep mistrust of men and their dogs and their fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistrust	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mistrust	amod
5	mistrust	mistrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mistrust	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dogs	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dogs	nmod:poss
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fires	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fires	nmod:poss
13	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	he	a deep mistrust of men and men's dogs and dogs's fires	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistrust=Patient
2	mistrust			men and men's dogs and dogs's fires	nom mistrust «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	fire		dogs = dog		nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he is afraid of the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of the dogs; afraid property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he has a mistrust of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mistrust	det
4	mistrust	mistrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 men	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mistrust	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	he	a mistrust of men					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistrust=Patient
2	mistrust			men					nom mistrust «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

yes, he is scared of every man he has seen in the village since he was small

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 man	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl
15	since	since	SCONJ	_	18 small	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 small	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 small	cop
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scared	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			of every man; scared property	tree rules
2	see	present · perfect	man	every man not said here	the village		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	is	past	man			small property	tree rules

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