Test 7 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

what did Baloo swear he would never do again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Baloo · What happens: swear, not do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 swear	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swear	aux
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swear	nsubj
4	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swear	ccomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 swear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · do-support	Baloo						tree rules
2	not do	would	Baloo				again		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 · ← Mova's choice

Trust Kaa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Trust	appos

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

Option 2

Befriend the big snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Befriend	befriend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snake	amod
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Befriend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befriend	imperative	you not said here	the big snake					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Team up with Kaa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Team	team	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Team	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Kaa	case
4	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Team	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	team up	imperative	you not said here					with Kaa	vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with kaa=Co-Agent

Option 4

Team up with monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Team	team	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Team	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 monkeys	case
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Team	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	team up	imperative	you not said here					with monkeys	vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with monkey=Co-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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