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

Mate, how was Kaa feeling when Bagheera started teasing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Bagheera · What happens: feel, start, tease

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feeling	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feeling	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeling	aux
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feeling	nsubj
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 started	advmod
8	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 started	nsubj
9	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeling	advcl
10	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 started	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	Mate	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	start	past	Bagheera	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tease	gerund	Bagheera not said here	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: 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

Hungry, with his tail lashing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lashing	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lashing	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 lashing	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lashing	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lashing	compound
6	lashing	lashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Bored and sleepy after a huge meal of goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sleepy	cc
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bored	conj
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 meal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 meal	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meal	amod
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bored	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 goats	case
9	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 meal	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cross, with his throat bulging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bulging	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 bulging	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bulging	nmod:poss
5	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bulging	compound
6	bulging	bulging	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cross	appos

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

Option 4

Sleepy and slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 slow	cc
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sleepy	conj

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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