Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowg…

Mate, why did Baloo tap Mowgli's head?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Baloo · What happens: tap · To what, where: head

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tap	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tap	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tap	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tap	aux
5	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tap	nsubj
6	tap	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Mowgli	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tap	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past · do-support	Baloo	Mowgli's head				Mate vocative	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent head=Location

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

He ate all the fruit, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fruit	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fruit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	all fruit and innit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

Option 2

He kept sulking and ignoring the Master Words all day, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sulking	sulk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ignoring	cc
5	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sulking	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Words	det
7	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Words	compound
8	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ignoring	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ignoring	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	He			tree rules
2	sulk	gerund	He not said here	innit		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	ignore	gerund	He not said here	the Master Words	day	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was being a proper pain, so he got a tap, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pain	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pain	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pain	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pain	amod
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pain	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tap	det
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a proper pain and innit					tree rules
2	get	past	he	a tap					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tap=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He forgot his lessons, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lessons	nmod:poss
4	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He	his lessons					tree rules

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