Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Sick, what was his job at Moulmein, like, what did he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Moulmein · What happens: sick, be, do · To what, where: job, Moulmein

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 job	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 job	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 job	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 job	nmod:poss
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Moulmein	case
8	Moulmein	Moulmein	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 job	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 do	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sick	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is a	past		his job	Moulmein	tree rules
3	do	past · do-support	Moulmein			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

pull teak logs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	teak	teak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 logs	compound
3	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	teak logs					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme

Option 2

haul big teak balks out of the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	haul	haul	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 balks	amod
3	teak	teak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balks	compound
4	balks	balk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 haul	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 haul	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	imperative	you not said here	big teak balks		the river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent balk=Theme out river=Initial_Location

Option 3

haul timber rafts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	haul	haul	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rafts	compound
3	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 haul	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	imperative	you not said here	timber rafts					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

haul teak balks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	haul	haul	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	teak	teak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 balks	compound
3	balks	balk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 haul	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	imperative	you not said here	teak balks					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balk=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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