Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

wait, Bagheera fell down the tree though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Bagheera · What happens: wait, fall down · To what, where: tree

This is test 8 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	though	though	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall down	past	Bagheera	the tree				though property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tree=Result

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, the branch cracked and he slid off the trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cracked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cracked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 branch	det
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracked	nsubj
5	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slid	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slid	nsubj
8	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cracked	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 trunk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trunk	det
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the branch						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slide off	past	branch	the trunk					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he slipped a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he	a bit					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the thin branches snapped and his claws were full of bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 snapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snapped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 branches	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 branches	amod
5	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 snapped	nsubj
6	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 full	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 claws	nmod:poss
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 full	cop
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snapped	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 bark	case
13	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	the thin branches						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	his claws					of bark; full property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he climbed down fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 climbed	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climbed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb down	past	he					down, fine property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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