Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Kha…

Why'd the villagers reckon Mowgli was a sorcerer, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: villagers, Mowgli, you · What happens: reckon, be, innit · To what, where: sorcerer

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 reckon	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villagers	det
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	advcl
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sorcerer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sorcerer	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sorcerer	det
9	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	would	the villagers		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Mowgli	a sorcerer	tree rules
3	innit	imperative	you not said here		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Buldeo spun a mad story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spun	nsubj
2	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spun	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past	Buldeo	a mad story					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent story=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He looked weird

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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	He					weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Buldeo told wild tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Buldeo	wild tales					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

Option 4

Buldeo spread a rumour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rumour	det
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	Buldeo	a rumour					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=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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