Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

did the cubs bail on him or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cubs · What happens: bail

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cubs	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cubs	det
3	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bail	nsubj
4	bail	bail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bail	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bail	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	present	the cubs					on him = he	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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

Nah, they said they'd hunt with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hunt	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hunt	aux
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	would	they					with him = he	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, they bailed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bailed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bailed	nsubj
4	bailed	bail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bailed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	past	they						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, they left him in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	him = he		the cold			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cold=Location

Option 4

Nah, they stayed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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