Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

fr, why did the village kids tease him so much

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: tease · To what, where: him

This is test 7 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tease	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tease	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tease	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tease	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kids	compound
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tease	nsubj
8	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tease	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	8 tease	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	past · do-support	fr	him = he					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 owed them money

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 owed	nsubj
2	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 owed	obj
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	he	them = they					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal money=Theme

Option 2

he broke their pots

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pots	nmod:poss
4	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	their pots					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Patient

Option 3

he stole their food

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	their food					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he would not play games or fly kites

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	4 play	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 play	advmod
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 fly	cc
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 play	conj
8	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	would	he	games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	fly	infinitive	he not said here	kites					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kite=Theme

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