Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Peterse…

did the baby brother sleep during the Shiv song?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: brother sleep

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 626 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Petersen Sahib praises Little Toomai, and Kala Nag breaks loose at night» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sleep	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	compound
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	compound
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
6	during	during	ADP	_	9 song	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 song	det
8	Shiv	shiv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 song	compound
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the brother sleep			during the Shiv song		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=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

nah, he was awake all night beating the tom-tom at the fire

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 awake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awake	cop
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awake	obl:unmarked
8	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 night	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tom	det
10	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tom	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tom	punct
12	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beating	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				night	awake property	tree rules
2	beat	gerund	all night not said here	the tom tom		the fire			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the song kept him awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the song	him = he				awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

yeah, Dad sang the war song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	compound
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Dad	the war song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, Mum sang the lullaby till he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lullaby	det
6	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 slept	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Mum	the lullaby					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lullaby=Theme
2	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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