Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

Cringe, what was the mood at the very end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cringe · What happens: be · To what, where: mood, end

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mood	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mood	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mood	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mood	det
6	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cringe	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 end	advmod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mood	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Cringe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Cringe and the mood	the mood			at the end		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

Wild and frightening, with the thundering beat getting louder and louder as the whole herd danced in the dark

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beat	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 frightening	cc
3	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wild	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beat	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 beat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beat	det
7	thundering	thundering	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	compound
8	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 beat	acl
10	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 getting	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 louder	cc
12	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 louder	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 herd	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 herd	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 herd	amod
16	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obl
17	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 herd	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 danced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	the Wild thundering beat not said here					as the whole herd; loud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as herd=Attribute
2	dance	participle		the whole herd not said here		the dark			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2

Tense, with the drums going on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drums	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 drums	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drums	det
5	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tense	conj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 drums	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	gerund	the drums not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eerie, with the beat getting louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eerie	eerie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beat	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 beat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beat	det
5	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 beat	acl
7	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	the Eerie beat not said here					loud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Calm and quiet, slowly fading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fading	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 quiet	cc
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Calm	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fading	punct
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 fading	advmod
6	fading	fade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	gerund						slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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