Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

Bruv, why did Bagheera go on about the he-goat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: go on

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 goat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goat	det
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goat	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · do-support	Bagheera					about the goat; Bruv vocative	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about goat=Location

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

To make Kaa angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		Kaa				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kaa=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To wind up Kaa about his fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wind	mark
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 wind	compound:prt
4	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wind	appos
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 fear	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fear	nmod:poss
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear		Kaa						nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To warn Kaa of the goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 warn	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 goats	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goats	det
6	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive			Kaa			of the goats	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent kaa=Recipient of goat=Topic

Option 4

For fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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