Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped…

what did the monkeys do to make him grateful?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkeys · What happens: do, make · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkeys	det
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the monkeys			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	the monkeys not said here	him = he	grateful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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 gave him a long hot bath and pinched him to show love

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bath	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bath	amod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bath	amod
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pinched	cc
9	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pinched	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 show	mark
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pinched	advcl
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	They	a long hot bath	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bath=Theme
2	pinch	past	They not said here	him = he		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	show	to-infinitive	They not said here	love		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They pinched 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 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	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 pinched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	They	him = he					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

They tickled his feet

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 tickled	nsubj
2	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tickled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	past	They	his feet					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Experiencer

Option 4

They poked his arms

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 poked	nsubj
2	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arms	nmod:poss
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past	They	his arms					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=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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