Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

did the head-man make Mowgli herd the cows or the buffaloes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head man, Mowgli · What happens: make, herd · To what, where: Mowgli, cows

This is test 3 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 head	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cows	det
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 herd	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 buffaloes	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 buffaloes	det
13	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cows	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	the head man	Mowgli					tree rules
2	herd	infinitive	Mowgli not said here	the cows or the buffaloes					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=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

the cows and the buffaloes both, the slaty-blue ones with the wicked eyes and the whole village herd

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 buffaloes	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buffaloes	det
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cows	conj
6	both	both	ADV	_	5 buffaloes	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
9	slaty	slaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blue	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 slaty	punct
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cows	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eyes	det
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eyes	amod
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ones	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 herd	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 herd	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 herd	amod
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 herd	compound
21	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eyes	conj

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

Option 2

the buffaloes, the spotted ones from the far pools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buffaloes	det
2	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ones	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buffaloes	appos
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 pools	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pools	det
9	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pools	amod
10	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the buffaloes, the slaty-blue ones with the wicked eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buffaloes	det
2	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ones	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
5	slaty	slaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blue	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 slaty	punct
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buffaloes	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eyes	det
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ones	nmod

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

Option 4

the buffaloes, the slaty-blue ones with the wicked eyes that he had to guide through the long grass

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buffaloes	det
2	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ones	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
5	slaty	slaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blue	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 slaty	punct
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buffaloes	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eyes	det
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ones	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 guide	mark
17	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	through	through	ADP	_	21 grass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grass	amod
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the buffaloes and the blue ones with the wicked eyes						tree rules
2	guide	to-infinitive	the buffaloes and the blue ones with the wicked eyes not said here			the long grass			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through grass=Destination

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