Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

fam what did Mowgli do to laugh at the monkeys from the trap

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: laugh · To what, where: trap

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 609 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 laugh	mark
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 monkeys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkeys	det
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laugh	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 trap	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trap	det
13	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	to-infinitive · do-support	fam			the trap		at the monkeys	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

hissed like a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hissed	hiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 snake	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	participle						like a snake	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

barked like a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 dog	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 barked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	participle							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hooted like an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hooted	hoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 owl	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hooted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoot	participle						like a owl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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