Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

bruh Mowgli landed on his feet, how he even do that lol

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: land, do · To what, where: feet, that

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 landed	discourse
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 landed	nsubj
3	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 landed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 do	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 landed	conj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 do	obj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 landed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	Mowgli			Mowgli's feet			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination
2	do	present	Mowgli	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

he landed on a pile of leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 pile	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pile	det
5	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	he			a pile of leaves			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on pile=Destination

Option 2

he was super light and the fall was not very far at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 light	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 light	cop
3	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 far	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fall	det
7	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 far	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 far	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 far	advmod
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 light	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	super light					tree rules
2	not is	past	the fall			all		far property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cause Kaa caught him fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	catch	past	Kaa	him = he				fast property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause Baloo taught him to fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taught	nsubj
3	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taught	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past	Baloo	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fall	to-infinitive	Baloo not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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