Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…
its giving, wild, the priest trying to sound smart
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: its · What happens: give, try, sound
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 giving | nsubj |
| 2 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 trying | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 giving | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 priest | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wild | obl |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sound | mark |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | its = it | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | sound not said to happen | to-infinitive | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
the jungle is haunted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jungle | det |
| 2 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haunted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 haunted | aux:pass |
| 4 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | present · passive | the jungle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 2
the boy is cursed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | aux:pass |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | present · passive | the boy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
the boy must leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | must | the boy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
what the jungle takes the jungle gives back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 takes | obj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jungle | det |
| 3 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jungle | det |
| 6 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | nsubj |
| 7 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 takes | ccomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 gives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the jungle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give back | present | the jungle | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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