Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

what does "lawlessness" even mean, like in normal words?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lawlessness · What happens: mean

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» 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	7 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lawlessness	punct
4	lawlessness	lawlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lawlessness	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 words	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 words	case
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mean	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	lawlessness					like normal words	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Nobody following the rules, pure chaos, and the wolves hated every bit of it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 hated	nsubj
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nobody	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rules	det
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 following	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chaos	punct
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chaos	amod
7	chaos	chaos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rules	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hated	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolves	det
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hated	nsubj
12	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hated	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		the rules					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
2	hate	past	Nobody	every bit of bit					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nobody following the rules, pure chaos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nobody	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rules	det
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 following	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chaos	punct
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chaos	amod
7	chaos	chaos	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		the rules					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme

Option 3

Nobody following the rules, pure chaos, like when the Pack went mad with hunger.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 went	nsubj
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nobody	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rules	det
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 following	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chaos	punct
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chaos	amod
7	chaos	chaos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rules	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 went	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pack	det
12	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 hunger	case
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mad	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		the rules					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
2	go	past	Nobody					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Breaking rules and doing what you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Breaking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 doing	cc
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Breaking	conj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 like	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	break	gerund		rules	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient
2	do	gerund			tree rules
3	like	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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