Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…
lowkey, was Messua's boy the one the tiger took
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, one · What happens: be, take · To what, where: boy
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | cop |
| 4 | Messua | Messua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Messua | case |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 took | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tiger | det |
| 10 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lowkey | Messua's boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the one | Messua's boy not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination |
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
yes, but he came back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | he | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yes, she lost him to the tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tiger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tiger | det |
| 8 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | she | him = he | to the tiger | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
Option 3
no, he was the priest's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 son | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 son | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priest | det |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 priest | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | the priest's son | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
no, he ran away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | he | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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