Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

wait so Baloo was like mad smushed but still wild, what did he do

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Baloo · What happens: wait, be, smush, do · To what, where: Baloo

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 mad	case
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Baloo	appos
7	smushed	smush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mad	xcomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 wild	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mad	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 do	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 Baloo	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	Baloo			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				mad property	tree rules
3	smush	participle					tree rules
4	be				still		tree rules
5	do	past · do-support	Baloo	Baloo			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 chased em off

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past	he	em = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he called Kaa over to help him batter all the monkeys

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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
4	over	over	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	batter	batter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 monkeys	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkeys	det
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 batter	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call over speech: assert	past	he		Kaa	over property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kaa=Recipient
2	help	to-infinitive	he not said here	Kaa			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	batter	infinitive	Kaa not said here	all monkeys			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent monkey=Instrument

Option 3

he threw em down

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	he	em = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

hugged and batted em

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hugged	hug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 em	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 batted	cc
3	batted	bat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 hugged	conj
4	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	participle							vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bat	participle							vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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