Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

was Bagheera the one who paid for him, like with a bull?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bagheera one · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: Bagheera

This is test 4 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Bagheera	cop
2	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 one	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 paid	nsubj
6	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 paid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bull	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 bull	case
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bull	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bull	det
13	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Bagheera					tree rules
2	pay	past	the Bagheera one					for him = he	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme

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

yup, a bull when he got accepted into the Pack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bull	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bull	det
4	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 accepted	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 accepted	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 accepted	aux:pass
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 yup	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 Pack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pack	det
11	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past · passive		bull		the Pack			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, a bull when he got accepted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bull	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bull	det
4	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 accepted	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 accepted	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 accepted	aux:pass
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 yup	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past · passive		bull					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

yup, he paid with a fat deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 deer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deer	det
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deer	amod
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he					with a fat deer; yup vocative	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, Bagheera paid a bull ten years ago to the Pack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bull	det
6	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Pack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pack	det
12	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Bagheera	a bull				to the Pack; ago property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Asset

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