Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

lol Kaa hissed one word and the monkeys just froze, how

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kaa, monkeys · What happens: hiss, freeze · To what, where: one word

This is test 8 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 hissed	discourse
2	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hissed	nsubj
3	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 word	nummod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hissed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 froze	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkeys	det
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 froze	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 froze	advmod
10	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hissed	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 how	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 hissed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	Kaa	one word					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	freeze	past	the monkeys						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

the word stopped em

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the word	em = they					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality

Option 2

they ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	they						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they heard the sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	they	the sound					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

Option 4

it froze em

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 froze	nsubj
2	froze	freeze	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 froze	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	it	em = they					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

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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