Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

so is Shere Khan back or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Shere

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 back	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Shere	cop
3	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 back	nsubj
4	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Shere	flat
5	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 back	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 back	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Shere					tree rules

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

nah, he's still gone, but Tabaqui says he'll come back to hunt the boy down

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
9	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunt	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	16 hunt	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he		still	gone property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Tabaqui				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come back	future	Tabaqui				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt down	to-infinitive	Tabaqui not said here	the boy			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 back	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 back	cop
5	back	back	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					back property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, he went back over the ranges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 ranges	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ranges	det
8	ranges	range	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he			the ranges			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he's back, and he wants Mowgli dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 back	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 back	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 back	cop
5	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wants	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wants	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wants	nsubj
9	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 back	advcl
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wants	obj
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					back property	tree rules
2	want	present	he	Mowgli				dead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot mowgli=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/612-pg236-part13/t6/