Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped…

Which action did the monkeys perform when Mowgli attempted to depart from the city?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: action, monkeys, Mowgli · What happens: do, perform, attempt, depart · To what, where: city

This is exam question 3 of lesson 608 «Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped by the monkeys in the ruined Cold Lairs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkeys	det
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 attempted	advmod
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 attempted	nsubj
9	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perform	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 depart	mark
11	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attempted	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 city	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 depart	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	which action		tree rules
2	perform	present	the monkeys		tree rules
3	attempt	past	Mowgli		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	depart not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	the city	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_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

They pulled him back into the city and held him there with their long arms

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 pulled	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	obj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 held	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 arms	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 arms	amod
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	past	They	him = he		the city			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	hold	past	They not said here	him = he		there		with their long arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

They pulled him back into the city, then pinched him and made him stay for days

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 pulled	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pinched	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 pinched	advmod
10	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pinched	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pull back	past	They	him = he	the city		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	pinch	past	They not said here	him = he		then	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	make	past	They not said here	him = he			tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	him = he not said here			day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They pulled him back into the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 pulled	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	past	They	him = he		the city			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 4

They grabbed him and pulled him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pulled	cc
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	They	him = he					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	pull	past	They not said here	him = he					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

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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