Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

Wot does Little Toomai wanna do when he's bigger, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: do, be, innit · To what, where: Little Toomai

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Toomai	amod
4	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	4 Toomai	dep
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bigger	aux
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bigger	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bigger	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bigger	cop
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 does	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bigger	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	Wot	Little Toomai		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present · do-support	Wot		big property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	Wot not said here			tree rules

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

sit on his dad's neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 neck	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 neck	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dad	case
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			his dad's neck			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location

Option 2

take his dad's place on the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dad	case
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neck	det
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	his dad's place		the neck			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on neck=Destination

Option 3

ride on the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 neck	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neck	det
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ride	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

take his dad's place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dad	case
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	his dad's place					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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