Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

wait, so Mowgli called Buldeo out in front of everyone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mowgli · What happens: wait, call out · To what, where: front

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 everyone	case
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 front	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	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	call out speech: assert	past	Mowgli			front of everyone			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, he told the head-man alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		the head man			alone property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, straight up, in front of the whole club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 up	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 up	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 club	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 club	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 club	amod
11	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nmod

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

Option 3

yep, straight up, in front of the whole club and the grey-beards too, all the way through

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 up	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 up	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 club	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 club	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 club	amod
11	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beards	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beards	det
14	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beards	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grey	punct
16	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 club	conj
17	too	too	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 way	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 up	obl:unmarked
22	through	through	ADV	_	21 way	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yep, he called him out at the fig tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	he	him = he				at the fig tree	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent he=Theme at tree=Stimulus

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