Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

Dude, which bird spotted Mowgli and came to tell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: spot, come, tell · To what, where: Mowgli · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spotted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spotted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spotted	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spotted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	spot	past	Dude and which bird	Mowgli	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mowgli=Destination
2	come	past	Dude and which bird not said here		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Dude and which bird not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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

Hathi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hathi	Hathi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Mang the Bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mang	mang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bat	det
3	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mang	imperative	you not said here	the Bat					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rann the Kite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rann	Rann	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kite	det
3	Kite	Kite	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rann	appos

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

Option 4

The Crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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