Test 14 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

true, what did the snakes say when Mowgli nearly stepped on them

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snakes, Mowgli · What happens: do, say, step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snakes	det
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stepped	advmod
9	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stepped	nsubj
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 stepped	advmod
11	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stepped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the snakes		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	step	past	Mowgli	on snakes = snake; nearly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory

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

move back little brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 move	advmod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move back	imperative	you not said here	little brother					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

keep still, little one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 keep	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 keep	vocative

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stand still little brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 stand	advmod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here	little brother			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

run away now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 run	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here				now	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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