Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

Bro, so Toomai actually snuck off after the elephant in the middle of the night, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: snuck off · To what, where: middle

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 627 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai rides Kala Nag to the secret elephant gathering» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snuck	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snuck	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 snuck	advmod
4	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 snuck	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 snuck	advmod
6	snuck	snuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 snuck	compound:prt
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 elephant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snuck	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snuck	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 cap	det
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 snuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuck off	past	Bro			the middle of the night and no cap	after the elephant	actually property	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

Nah, Kala Nag came to the camp on his own and took Toomai out of his bed without the boy knowing

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Kala	flat
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 camp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camp	det
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 bed	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bed	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bed	nmod:poss
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 boy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
22	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 boy	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Kala		Kala's own	to the camp	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location
2	take	past	Kala not said here	Toomai	Kala's bed	without the boy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent toomai=Theme out bed=Initial_Location
3	know	gerund	the boy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he begged Kala Nag to take him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
6	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kala	flat
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he		Kala				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent kala=Recipient
2	take	to-infinitive	he not said here		Kala				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, he asked Kala Nag to come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	iobj
6	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kala	flat
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he		Kala				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent kala=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he begged the elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he		the elephant				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient

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