Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

so what did Toomai yell to Kala Nag?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toomai · What happens: yell · To what, where: Kala

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 yell	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 yell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 yell	aux
4	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 yell	nsubj
5	yell	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Kala	case
7	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 yell	obl
8	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Kala	flat
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 yell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · do-support	Toomai		Kala				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to kala=Recipient

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

maro, mar, hit him, hit him, hit him hard, you big old tusker!

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	maro	maro	X	Foreign=Yes	3 mar	dep
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mar	punct
3	mar	mar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mar	punct
5	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hit	punct
11	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hit	obj
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hit	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tusker	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tusker	nsubj
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tusker	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tusker	amod
18	tusker	tusker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	infinitive	mar	him = he		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	hit	past	mar not said here	mar		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	hit	past	mar not said here	mar	hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4	tusker		you			tree rules

Option 2

maro, mar, hit him, hit him, go on, Kala Nag, get that wild bull

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	maro	maro	X	Foreign=Yes	3 mar	dep
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mar	punct
3	mar	mar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mar	punct
5	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Kala	punct
14	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Kala	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hit	conj
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 bull	det
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bull	amod
20	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hit	infinitive	mar	him = he	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	hit	past	mar not said here	mar	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	go on	infinitive	mar not said here	Kala	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	infinitive	mar not said here	that wild bull	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bull=Stimulus

Option 3

hit him, hit him, get him now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hit	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hit	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 hit	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	hit	past	you not said here	him = he		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	get	infinitive	you not said here	him = he	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

maro, mar, hit him, hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	maro	maro	X	Foreign=Yes	3 mar	dep
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mar	punct
3	mar	mar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 mar	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mar	punct
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	infinitive		mar					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	hit	past	mar	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

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