Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Dead serious, what made him back into the rifles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make back · To what, where: him, rifles

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 serious	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 rifles	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rifles	det
10	rifles	rifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make back	past		him = he		the rifles			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

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

a bullet hitting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bullet	det
2	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bullet	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund	a bullet not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

a cannon firing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 firing	det
2	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 firing	compound
3	firing	firing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a shell going off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shell	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shell	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	gerund	a shell not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a shell going off near the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shell	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shell	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	gerund	a shell not said here			the line			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near line=Location

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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