Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

yo did Buldeo really say the tiger had some money-lender's ghost in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Buldeo, tiger, money lender · What happens: say, have, ghost · To what, where: ghost · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 612 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds the buffaloes and hears that Shere Khan is back» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tiger	det
7	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 lender	det
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lender	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 money	punct
12	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ghost	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 lender	case
14	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ghost	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Buldeo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the tiger	some money lender's ghost	ghost	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Patient
3	ghost		some money lender		ghost	nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

nah, just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 joke	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he was dead serious about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 serious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 serious	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 serious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 serious	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 serious	amod
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 serious	obl

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

Option 3

yep, he swore on his musket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 musket	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 musket	nmod:poss
7	musket	musket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he			his musket			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nope, he was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 lying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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