Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

bro why did Mowgli cry at the end, was he hurt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: cry, hurt · To what, where: end, bro

This is test 7 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cry	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cry	aux
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cry	nsubj
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	nsubj
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Mowgli				at the end		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	hurt	past · passive		bro					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

yup, a thorn in his foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thorn	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thorn	det
4	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	appos
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 foot	nmod:poss
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thorn	nmod

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

Option 2

nah, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, Bagheera said it's just tears men use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tears	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tears	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 tears	advmod
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tears	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bagheera		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	tears	tree rules
3	use	present	men	tears not said here	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient

Option 4

nah, he just felt sad inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 felt	advmod
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					inside, sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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