Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

wait, why did Mowgli sleep in the grass instead of the bed

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: Mowgli sleep, grass

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 bed	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	Mowgli sleep		the grass		instead the bed	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Eventuality

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

he was sick

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	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sick property	tree rules

Option 2

the priest said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the priest						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he hated being under a roof

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 roof	cop
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	gerund				a roof			tree rules

Option 4

the bed was too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bed					hard property	tree rules

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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