Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

bet you can't guess who called him a young jungle-cock?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: bet, not guess, call · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 guess	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bet	conj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cock	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cock	amod
11	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cock	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 jungle	punct
13	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	bet	imperative	you not said here		vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	not guess	can	you		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call	past		him = he	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer

Machua Appa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Machua	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Toomai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Petersen Sahib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Petersen	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Big Toomai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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