Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

wait fr, why did the wolves call Mowgli a man?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolves · What happens: wait, call · To what, where: fr, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 call	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolves	det
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
9	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	fr					tree rules
2	call	past · do-support	the wolves		a man				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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

cuz he stopped being part of the Pack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cuz	acl:relcl
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 part	cop
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Pack	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pack	det
8	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he	cuz not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cuz=Eventuality
2	is a	gerund	cuz	part				of the Pack	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cuz he's a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cuz	a man					tree rules

Option 3

cuz he was no longer their own cub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cub	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cub	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cub	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 cub	advmod
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cub	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cub	amod
8	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cuz	their own cub				long property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cuz he wasn't one of their cubs anymore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cubs	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cubs	nmod:poss
8	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	5 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	cuz	one				of their cubs; anymore property	tree rules

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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