Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped…

what did Rann promise to do for Bagheera's kill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rann, Bagheera · What happens: promise, do, kill

This is test 13 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 promise	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promise	aux
3	Rann	Rann	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promise	nsubj
4	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 kill	case
8	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kill	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Bagheera	case
10	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Rann		vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rann not said here	for Bagheera's kill	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kill		Bagheera		nom kill «act transitive»: poss=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

Hold the tail for him now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tail	det
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obl
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the tail			now	for him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 2

Keep the meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the meat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Put aside the head for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	aside	aside	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	the head				for him = he; aside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal

Option 4

Give him food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	food	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

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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