Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowg…

Lad, what's the answer when you ask to hunt, like on the Strangers' Call?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lad, Strangers · What happens: be, ask, hunt, call · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 answer	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lad	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 ask	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 ask	nsubj
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hunt	mark
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Call	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	18 Call	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 Call	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Strangers	det
16	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Call	nmod:poss
17	'	's	PART	_	16 Strangers	case
18	Call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunt	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lad and the answer	the answer		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	Lad and the answer			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lad and the answer not said here		like the Strangers's Call	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call		the Strangers			nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Hunt if you must, but do not kill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 must	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 must	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Hunt	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kill	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 kill	cc
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 kill	advmod
9	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hunt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not kill	infinitive · do-support	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hunt then for food, but not for pleasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Hunt	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunt	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pleasure	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 pleasure	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 pleasure	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 pleasure	case
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here				then	for food; for pleasure	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 3

Hunt for food only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 food	case
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunt	obl
4	only	only	ADV	_	1 Hunt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here					for food	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 4

Go hunt, but spare the young deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spare	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 spare	cc
5	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deer	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deer	amod
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	hunt					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunt=Theme
2	spare	infinitive	you not said here	the young deer					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent deer=Asset

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