Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

did the monkeys actually have a proper boss?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkeys · What happens: do, have · To what, where: proper boss

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 606 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkeys	det
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boss	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boss	amod
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	have	present	the monkeys	a proper boss				actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=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

yeah, they had a leader called Chil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leader	det
6	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 leader	acl
8	Chil	Chil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a leader					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient
2	call	participle		a leader not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, they kept wanting one but never got one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 wanting	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	they		tree rules
2	want	gerund	they not said here	one	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	not get	past	they not said here	one	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, they were always going to have one but never did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 going	advmod
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 have	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 did	advmod
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	they		always property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	to-infinitive	they not said here	one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	not do	past	they not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, they had one boss, always in charge of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 boss	nummod
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 charge	punct
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 charge	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 charge	case
10	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 charge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	one boss					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Patient
2	charge			them = they					nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient

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