Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…
did the kids just sit around doing nothing all day?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: do, sit around · To what, where: nothing
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kids | det |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sit | advmod |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | parataxis |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 doing | mark |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sit | advcl |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 doing | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doing | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sit around | present | the kids | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | the kids not said here | nothing | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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 right answer
yeah, they wove baskets and fought mantises
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wove | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wove | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wove | nsubj |
| 4 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wove | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fought | cc |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wove | conj |
| 8 | mantises | mantis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | they | baskets | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | they not said here | mantises | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantis=Co-Agent |
Option 2
nope, they herded cows the whole time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 herded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 herded | nsubj |
| 4 | herded | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 herded | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 herded | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herd | past | they | cows | time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient |
Option 3
yeah, they slept
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | they | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, they made clay pots by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pots | compound |
| 6 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | they | clay pots | by the river | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pot=Product |
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