Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Kha…

Like, why'd the Pack have no boss?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pack · What happens: have · To what, where: boss

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 have	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 Pack	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pack	det
6	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 boss	det
9	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Pack	no boss					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=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 · ← Mova's choice

He was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

Akela was exiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exiled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exiled	aux:pass
3	exiled	exile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	past · passive		Akela					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Akela got deposed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 deposed	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deposed	aux:pass
3	deposed	depose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depose	past · passive		Akela					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Akela was pushed out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	aux:pass
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 pushed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push out	past · passive		Akela					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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