Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

ngl, why did the potter's donkey get pulled out

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do, pull out · To what, where: donkey

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 potter	det
6	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 donkey	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 potter	case
8	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj:pass
9	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	aux:pass
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull out	present · passive		the potter's donkey					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 · ← Mova's choice

it was stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux:pass
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · passive		it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

it was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	it					sick property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it slipped in the clay pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 pit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pit	det
5	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pit	compound
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	it					in the clay pit	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pit=Attribute

Option 4

it ran to Khanhiwara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Khanhiwara	case
4	Khanhiwara	Khanhiwara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	it		Khanhiwara				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to khanhiwara=Result

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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