Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

Blud, what's Kaa always after, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Blud Kaa

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kaa	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Blud	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Kaa	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Kaa	cop
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 after	advmod
7	after	after	ADV	_	5 Kaa	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 Kaa	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Kaa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Blud Kaa				after property	tree rules

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

Any monkey who wanders alone along the river path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wanders	nsubj
4	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 monkey	acl:relcl
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 wanders	advmod
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 path	compound
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanders	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	present	any monkey			the river path		alone property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory

Option 2

Anything that moves in the jungle, every single day and night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 moves	nsubj
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Anything	acl:relcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 jungle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jungle	det
6	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anything	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anything	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present				the jungle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in jungle=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Something to eat, he's always starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 eat	mark
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Something	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Something	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 starving	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 starving	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 starving	advmod
8	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	starve	present · progressive	he					always property	tree rules

Option 4

Mice and birds on the riverbank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 birds	cc
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mice	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 riverbank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 riverbank	det
6	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mice	nmod

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

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