Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

did the monkeys tell the jungle they were like top dogs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkeys · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: jungle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 monkeys	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkeys	det
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jungle	det
6	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dogs	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dogs	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 dogs	case
10	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dogs	amod
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jungle	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the monkeys	the jungle					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jungle=Recipient
2	is	past	monkeys = monkey	the jungle not said here				like top dogs	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, they were boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 boss	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boss	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boss	cop
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	boss					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they said everyone would look up to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 look	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look up	would	everyone		them = they				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they said all the Jungle-People would admire them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 People	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 People	det
7	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 People	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Jungle	punct
9	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 admire	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 admire	aux
11	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 admire	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	admire	would	all Jungle People	them = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, they were just kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 kids	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kids	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kids	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 kids	advmod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	kids					tree rules

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