Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

they go through the trees like it's a skate park, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, it · What happens: go, be, innit · To what, where: trees

This is test 3 · ★ 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 park	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 park	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 park	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 park	det
10	skate	skate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 park	compound
11	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	they	the trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through tree=Initial_Location
2	is	present	it		like a skate park	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive				tree rules

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, proper roads up high, like fifty feet up, and they race along them all day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 proper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roads	amod
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 race	nsubj
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 roads	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feet	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roads	conj
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 feet	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 race	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 race	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 race	nsubj
15	race	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	along	along	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 race	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 race	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	present	proper roads and fifty feet				day	along feet = foot	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along they=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they just swing about on the ground lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swing	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 swing	advmod
5	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 swing	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swing	obl
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 swing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	present	they			the ground		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory

Option 3

yeah, they jump from tree to tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jump	nsubj
4	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 tree	case
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	present	they			tree		to tree result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from tree=Initial_State to tree=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, proper roads up high, like fifty feet up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 roads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 roads	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roads	amod
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 roads	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feet	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roads	conj
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 feet	advmod

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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