Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped…

how did Mowgli act when they all shouted, honest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mowgli, they · What happens: act, shout

This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 act	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 act	aux
3	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 act	nsubj
4	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 shouted	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shouted	nsubj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 shouted	advmod
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 act	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 act	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 act	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · do-support	Mowgli						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	past	they					all property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 · ✓ the right answer

He nodded and blinked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blinked	cc
4	blinked	blink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nodded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	He						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blink	participle	He not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He nodded and blinked slowly, not quite knowing what the monkeys wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blinked	cc
4	blinked	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 blinked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knowing	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 knowing	advmod
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 knowing	advmod
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 nodded	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 wanted	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkeys	det
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knowing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	nod	past	He		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blink	past	He not said here	slowly property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	gerund	He not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	want	past	the monkeys		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He just stood there, nodding and blinking, while they shouted loudly at him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nodding	punct
6	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blinking	cc
8	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 nodding	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shouted	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 shouted	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shouted	nsubj
12	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	12 shouted	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nod	gerund	He not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blink	gerund	He not said here			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shout speech: express	past	they		at him = he; loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He just sat and blinked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blinked	cc
5	blinked	blink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blink	participle	He not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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