Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Peterse…

how'd the night noises sound, like totally silent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: night · What happens: noise · To what, where: sound

This is test 9 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 noises	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 noises	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noises	nsubj
5	noises	noise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 silent	advcl
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noises	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 silent	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 silent	case
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 silent	advmod
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 silent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise	present	the night	sound					tree rules

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

yeah, the whole jungle went totally silent as the moon rose over the hills

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jungle	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jungle	amod
5	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 silent	advmod
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 rose	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 hills	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hills	det
15	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the whole jungle					silent property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	past	the moon			the hills			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, lots of tiny sounds made one big silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sounds	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sounds	amod
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 silence	nummod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 silence	amod
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	lots of tiny sounds	one big silence					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silence=Product

Option 3

nah, lots of tiny sounds, the rustle and hoot, made one big silence

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 lots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sounds	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sounds	amod
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rustle	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rustle	det
9	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hoot	cc
11	hoot	hoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rustle	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lots	punct
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 silence	nummod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 silence	amod
16	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	lots of tiny sounds and the rustle and hoot	one big silence					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silence=Product

Option 4

yeah, there were no sounds at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sounds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sounds	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sounds	det
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sounds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		no sounds		all			tree rules

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