Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…
did Toomai get told off or nah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: tell off · To what, where: Toomai
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 625 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded, then brought before Petersen Sahib» 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 | 2 Toomai | aux |
| 2 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 told | compound:prt |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nah | cc |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 told | iobj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell off speech: assert | infinitive · passive | Toomai | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient nah=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
yep, Big Toomai scolded him next morning and sent him off to wash the elephants
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 scolded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Toomai | amod |
| 4 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | nsubj |
| 5 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scolded | obj |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scolded | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 sent | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wash | mark |
| 14 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 elephants | det |
| 16 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wash | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | Big Toomai | him = he | morning | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | send off | past | Big Toomai not said here | Toomai | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wash | to-infinitive | Big Toomai not said here | the elephants | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yep, Big Toomai scolded him next morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 scolded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Toomai | amod |
| 4 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | nsubj |
| 5 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scolded | obj |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | Big Toomai | him = he | morning | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
yep, Big Toomai scolded him harshly the next morning and made him wash the whole herd
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 scolded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Toomai | amod |
| 4 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | nsubj |
| 5 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scolded | obj |
| 7 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 5 scolded | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scolded | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 herd | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 herd | amod |
| 17 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wash | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | Big Toomai | him = he | morning | harshly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | past | Big Toomai not said here | Toomai | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | Toomai not said here | the whole herd | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient |
Option 4
nope, he got a warm welcome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 welcome | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 welcome | amod |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a warm welcome | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer welcome=Stimulus |
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