Test 14 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

yo, how did he learn to talk with people

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: learn, talk

This is test 14 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learn	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 learn	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learn	nsubj
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learn	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · do-support	he						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk	to-infinitive	he not said here					with people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with people=Co-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

he read a book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	he	a book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2

a priest taught him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taught	nsubj
3	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	a priest		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he copied every word Messua said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copied	nsubj
2	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copied	obj
5	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 copied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	he	every word					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Gray Brother taught him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brother	amod
2	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taught	nsubj
3	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Gray Brother		Gray				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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