Test 14 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

fr, why was Toomai scared of Petersen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 scared	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scared	compound
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fr	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Petersen	case
8	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of Petersen; scared property	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

cause the drivers were mad at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drivers	det
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the drivers					at him = he; mad property	tree rules

Option 2

cause the sahib knew his father well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sahib	det
3	sahib	sahib	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	the sahib not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	know	past	the sahib	sahib's father				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus

Option 3

cause he was late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cause not said here				late property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause the boss was about to hear his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boss	det
3	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the boss		about property	tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive	the boss not said here	his name		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	name		his = he			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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