Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…
wait, did the buffs really charge down that cliff?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, buffs · What happens: wait, charge down · To what, where: cliff
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 charge | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 charge | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 buffs | det |
| 5 | buffs | buff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 charge | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 charge | advmod |
| 7 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 charge | compound:prt |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 cliff | det |
| 10 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charge | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | charge down | past · do-support | the buffs | that cliff | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme |
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
yep, down the hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 hill | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hill | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yep | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yep, straight down the ravine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 ravine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 ravine | advmod |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 ravine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ravine | det |
| 6 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nope, they just stood there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | they | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nope, they stayed back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay back | past | they | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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