Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

fr, what did the laughing men find so funny?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: laughing men · What happens: laugh, find · To what, where: fr

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	8 find	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 find	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 funny	advmod
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past · do-support	the laughing men	fr				funny property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the melons, cause they all taught elephants that trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 melons	det
2	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 melons	punct
4	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taught	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 taught	advmod
7	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	ccomp
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taught	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 trick	nsubj
10	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 elephants	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	cause	present	the melons		tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past	melons = melon	elephants	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient
3	trick	present	elephants		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the boy's answer about the green crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 crops	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crops	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crops	amod
8	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer		the boy					about the green crops	nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

Option 3

the melons, cause every one of them had taught their elephants that same trick back at camp

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 melons	det
2	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 melons	punct
4	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taught	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taught	aux
10	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cause	ccomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 elephants	nmod:poss
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taught	obj
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 trick	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trick	amod
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	4 cause	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 camp	case
18	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	the melons	that same trick		camp			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		every one of melons	melons's elephants				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient elephant=Topic

Option 4

the sahib's odd remark about the corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sahib	det
2	sahib	sahib	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remark	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sahib	case
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remark	amod
5	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 corn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corn	det
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remark		the sahib					about the corn	nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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