Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Kha…

Who was like, begging him to bounce for his own good?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: beg, bounce · To what, where: him

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 begging	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begging	aux
3	like	like	INTJ	_	5 begging	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 begging	punct
5	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begging	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bounce	mark
8	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begging	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 good	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 good	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	amod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bounce	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 begging	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past · progressive			him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	bounce	to-infinitive						for his own good	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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

Teja

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teja	Teja	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Messua's husband, who wanted Mowgli gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 husband	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Messua	case
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Messua's husband						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	participle	Mowgli						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Messua

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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