Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

ngl, what got Mowgli in trouble in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: get · To what, where: Mowgli, trouble

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	ngl	Mowgli		trouble		in the first place	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Stimulus

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

Teasing the wild Bandar-log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 log	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 log	amod
4	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 log	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Bandar	punct
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Teasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund		the wild Bandar log					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Playing with the Bandar-log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	6 log	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 log	det
4	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 log	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Bandar	punct
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund						with the Bandar log	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with log=Theme

Option 4

Playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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