Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

sus, what did Toomai do with the rope?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rope	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	sus					with the rope	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

threw it down to the men below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 threw	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 threw	obl
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 men	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past		it	the men				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to man=Destination

Option 2

swung it round his head and flung it over the stockade to a driver in the far pen

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 swung	obj
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swung	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flung	cc
7	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 swung	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flung	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 stockade	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stockade	det
11	stockade	stockade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 driver	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 driver	det
14	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 pen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pen	det
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pen	amod
18	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past		it		his head			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme round head=Trajectory
2	fling	past		head		the stockade		to a driver; in the far pen	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over stockade=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

threw it up to a driver in the pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 threw	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 driver	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pen	det
9	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	past		it		the pen		to a driver	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

threw the loose end up to a driver standing high in the pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 loose	det
3	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 driver	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 driver	det
8	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
9	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 driver	acl
10	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 standing	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pen	det
13	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past	the loose					to a driver	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	stand	gerund	a driver not said here			the pen		high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pen=Location

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