Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…
lowkey, how did the tiger die?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiger · What happens: die
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 die | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 die | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tiger | det |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | nsubj |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · do-support | the tiger | lowkey vocative | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
shot by hunters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 hunters | case |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 shot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
clawed by a wolf pack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clawed | claw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 pack | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pack | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pack | compound |
| 5 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 clawed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claw | participle | by a wolf pack | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by pack=Location |
Option 3
eaten by kites
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 kites | case |
| 3 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 eaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | participle | by kites | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
trampled by the herd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 herd | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 herd | det |
| 4 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 trampled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample | participle | by the herd | tree rules |
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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