Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

lol, did Gray Brother just sit around the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: Gray Brother

This is test 5 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brother	amod
5	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	around	around	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Gray Brother					tree rules
2	sit	present					time		vn assuming_position-50 «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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he sat on a rock as the signal, hella loyal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 signal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 signal	det
10	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hella	punct
12	hella	hella	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signal	conj
13	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hella	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			a rock		as the signal and hella	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

Option 2

yep, he wandered off to hunt for mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 wandered	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wandered	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 mice	case
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander off	past	he						tree rules
2	hunt	to-infinitive	he not said here					for mice	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for mouse=Theme

Option 3

nah, he ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he kept watch from a dhak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	dhak	dhak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	watch	infinitive	he not said here			a dhak tree			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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