Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

so the fire was the Red Flower, sus or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fire · What happens: be · To what, where: Flower sus

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	9 sus	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sus	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Flower	det
6	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Flower	flat
7	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sus	compound
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct
9	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 sus	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fire	Flower sus					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

nah, it's the men's hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 hut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hut	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hut	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hut	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 men	case
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the men's hut					tree rules

Option 2

yup, it was just a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flower	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flower	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flower	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 flower	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a flower					tree rules

Option 3

nah, it's what scared the wolves away from the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 scared	nsubj
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolves	det
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 away	obl:unmarked
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it						tree rules
2	scare	past				the rock		away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's what scared the wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 scared	nsubj
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolves	det
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it						tree rules
2	scare	past		the wolves					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolf=Experiencer

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