Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

no cap, why did the priest say the scars were wolf bites

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: priest, scars · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wolf bites · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scars	det
10	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bites	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bites	cop
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bites	compound
13	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the priest						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the scars	wolf bites					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

because he saw a wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 saw	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	a wolf					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

because the marks looked like wolf bites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 looked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 marks	det
3	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 bites	case
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bites	compound
7	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the marks					like wolf bites	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

because the boy lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 lied	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lied	nsubj
4	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the boy						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

because he owed Messua

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 owed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owed	nsubj
3	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	he	Messua					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent messua=Theme

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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