Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

bruh, why did Mowgli split the herd?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: split · To what, where: herd

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 613 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd crushes Shere Khan in the ravine» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 split	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 split	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 split	aux
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 split	nsubj
6	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herd	det
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 split	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 split	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past · do-support	Mowgli	the herd					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=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

So the cows went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cows	det
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the cows					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

So the bulls and cows couldn't team up on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	8 team	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulls	det
3	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 team	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cows	cc
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bulls	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 team	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 team	advmod
8	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 team	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 team	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cause the tiger was too sneaky for the herd anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sneaky	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tiger	det
3	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneaky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sneaky	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 sneaky	advmod
6	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 herd	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 herd	det
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneaky	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 sneaky	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the tiger					for the herd; anyway, sneaky property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So they couldn't team up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 could	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 could	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 team	advmod
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 could	nsubj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 could	compound:prt

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

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