Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…
bro, was Mowgli actually a wolf or just a wolf-kid
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: be · To what, where: wolf
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 611 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reaches a village and is taken in as a lost son» 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 | 7 wolf | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bro | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wolf | cop |
| 4 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wolf | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 wolf | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 kid | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 kid | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kid | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kid | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wolf | punct |
| 13 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wolf | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mowgli | a wolf or a wolf kid | bro vocative; actually property | tree rules |
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
a human boy raised by wolves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boy | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wolves | case |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 raised | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | participle | a human boy not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
a tiger in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 disguise | case |
| 4 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tiger | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a full grown wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wolf | amod |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wolf | amod |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
a village priest's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 priest | compound |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 priest | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/611-pg236-part12/t1/