Test 10 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

bro, what did Kaa say the monkeys could not do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kaa, monkeys · What happens: say, not do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 610 «Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the monkeys freeze under the Hunger Dance» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkeys	det
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Kaa					bro vocative	tree rules
2	not do	could	the monkeys						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

Climb or swing without his command

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 swing	cc
3	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Climb	conj
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 command	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 command	nmod:poss
6	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	without his command	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swing	infinitive	you not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	command		his = he		nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Stir foot or hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stir	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 hand	cc
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	imperative	you not said here	foot or hand					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Leap or swing before his order arrives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 swing	cc
3	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leap	conj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 arrives	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 order	nmod:poss
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	nsubj
7	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leap	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	his order						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order		his = he						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stir foot or hand without his order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stir	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 hand	cc
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foot	conj
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 order	nmod:poss
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stir	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	imperative	you not said here	foot or hand				without his order	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer
2	order		his = he						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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