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

Baloo's a big lad, so why's he so slow?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lad	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 slow	advmod
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 slow	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slow	nsubj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Baloo	a big lad					tree rules
2	is	present	Baloo					slow property	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

cos he's lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	cos not said here				lazy property	tree rules

Option 2

cos he's just a heavy old bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bear	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bear	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	8 bear	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bear	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bear	amod
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cos	a heavy old bear					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cos he's old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	cos not said here				old property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos he trotted like a clumsy big bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trotted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trotted	nsubj
3	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 bear	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
6	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bear	amod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bear	amod
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot	past	cos					like a clumsy big bear	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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