Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowg…

Wicked, what did the gray apes give him to eat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gray apes · What happens: do, give, eat · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 605 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowgli the Master Words, and Mowgli boasts of a monkey tribe» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 apes	det
6	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 apes	compound
7	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	give	present	the gray apes	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	the gray apes not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Sweet honey and the flesh of a fresh deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honey	amod
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flesh	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flesh	det
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 honey	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 deer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 deer	det
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deer	amod
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flesh	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nuts and pleasant things from the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 things	cc
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nuts	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nuts	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nuts and pleasant things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 things	cc
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nuts	conj

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

Option 4

Roots and sweet grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grass	cc
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roots	conj

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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