Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…
Gutted, what did Baloo say Mowgli was?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Baloo, Mowgli · What happens: gut, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 say | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | Baloo not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Baloo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Mowgli | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
The strongest of the pack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 strongest | det |
| 2 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pack | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pack | det |
| 5 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 strongest | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The best and boldest cub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 best | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cub | cc |
| 4 | boldest | bold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 cub | amod |
| 5 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 best | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A brave, clever young wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolf | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brave | punct |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolf | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolf | amod |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Man-cub who would one day lead the whole pack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cub | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cub | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Man | punct |
| 4 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lead | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lead | aux |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cub | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pack | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pack | amod |
| 12 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | would | the Man cub | the whole pack | day | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=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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