Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Kha…

What'd Akela do on the skin, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Akela · What happens: do · To what, where: skin

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 614 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Khan and is cast out by the village» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 'd	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Akela			the skin and mate			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Lay down on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Lay	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	imperative	you not said here			it		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination

Option 2

Stood over the skin and howled at the full moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 skin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stood	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 howled	cc
6	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stood	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moon	amod
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 howled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past				the skin			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over skin=Location
2	howl	past						at the full moon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus

Option 3

Howled on the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Howled	howl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 skin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Howled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	participle				the skin			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Location

Option 4

Lay down upon the skin while the whole pack watched closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Lay	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 skin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 pack	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pack	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pack	amod
9	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	parataxis
10	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pack	acl
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	10 watched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	imperative	you not said here			the skin		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon skin=Destination
2	watch	participle		the whole pack not said here				closely property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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