Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…
did Mother Wolf love him or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mother Wolf · What happens: love · To what, where: him
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Wolf | aux |
| 2 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wolf | compound |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nah | cc |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 love | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Mother Wolf | him = he | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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, she loved the cubs more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 loved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cubs | det |
| 6 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 loved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | she | the cubs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cub=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, more than her own cubs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 more | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 cubs | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cubs | amod |
| 7 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 more | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, she loved him more than her own cubs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 loved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 loved | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 cubs | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cubs | amod |
| 10 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | she | him = he | than her own cubs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 4
yeah, more than her own cubs, even Akela's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 more | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 cubs | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cubs | amod |
| 7 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 more | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Akela | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 Akela | advmod |
| 10 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cubs | nmod |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Akela | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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