Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

Wicked, what was Kaa busy doing for ten days?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 607 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera seek Kaa's help, then learn Mowgli has been taken to the Cold Lairs» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 busy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 busy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 busy	compound
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wicked	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 busy	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						busy property	tree rules
2	do	gerund					day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Hiding under rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	3 rocks	case
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				rocks			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=Location

Option 2

Basking in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Basking	bask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Basking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bask	gerund				the sun			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Hunting for a fat young goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	6 goat	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goat	det
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goat	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goat	amod
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund						for a fat young goat	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for goat=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Changing his skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 skin	nmod:poss
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		his skin					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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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