Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

real talk, what was the big thorn bush doing

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk, big thorn bush · What happens: be, do · To what, where: big thorn bush

This is test 13 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bush	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 bush	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bush	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bush	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bush	amod
8	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bush	compound
9	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bush	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	real talk	the big thorn bush					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the big thorn bush not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

it was pushed to one side

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	3 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	aux:pass
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 side	nummod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past · passive		it		one side			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to side=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was growing wild

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	3 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 growing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	it					wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it was on fire

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	4 fire	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fire	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			fire			tree rules

Option 4

it was guarding a tiger

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	3 guarding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guarding	aux
3	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tiger	det
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past · progressive	it		a tiger				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Beneficiary

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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