Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

what time did Mowgli head off, like sunset?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: time · What happens: do off · To what, where: Mowgli head

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 head	compound
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	off	off	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sunset	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 sunset	case
9	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do off	past	what time	Mowgli head			sunset	off property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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

at dawn, when the sky got light and the men slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dawn	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slept	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slept	nsubj
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the sky				dawn	light property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	sleep	past	the men						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

at dusk, when the sky got dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dusk	case
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dusk	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the sky				dusk	dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

at dawn, when the grey sky first got light over the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dawn	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sky	amod
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the grey sky	light		the hill	dawn	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

at dawn, when the sky got light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dawn	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the sky				dawn	light property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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