Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

where'd they say they'd play with him, like at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: say, play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 604 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives the wolves off with fire, beats Shere Khan, and leaves the jungle in tears» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 where	advcl:relcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 play	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 play	aux
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 play	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	would	they				night	with him = he	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

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

in the croplands by night and by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 croplands	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 croplands	det
3	croplands	cropland	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 croplands	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 river	cc
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

in the croplands by night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 croplands	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 croplands	det
3	croplands	cropland	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 croplands	nmod

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

Option 3

at the river pool by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 pool	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pool	compound
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pool	nmod

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

Option 4

in the hills at moonrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 hills	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hills	det
3	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 moonrise	case
5	moonrise	moonrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hills	nmod

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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