Test 7 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped…

did Mowgli wanna stay with the monkeys, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, stay · To what, where: Mowgli

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
3	wanna	wanna	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 did	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 monkeys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkeys	det
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 monkeys	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Mowgli					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=Eventuality
2	stay	infinitive						with the monkeys and mate	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with monkey=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

Nah, he was sick of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of them = they; sick property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he really wanted to go home and see Baloo and Bagheera again, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
11	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Bagheera	cc
13	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Baloo	conj
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			mate vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	he not said here	Baloo and Bagheera	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baloo=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he wanted to go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he wanted to go home to his own jungle, far away from these monkeys

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 jungle	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 jungle	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 jungle	amod
11	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 away	punct
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 away	advmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 monkeys	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 monkeys	det
17	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he					away property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			his own jungle		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location

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