Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

fr what did Mowgli keep doing, like the snake call thing

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 keep	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 fr	acl:relcl
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 thing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	compound
11	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Mowgli	fr					tree rules
2	do	gerund	fr not said here					like the call thing	vn act-114-1 «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

none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he kept going

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	go	gerund	he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gave it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		it				twice property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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