Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

Ngl, how did the elephant get him up on his neck?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: get up · To what, where: elephant, neck

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 get	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 neck	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past · do-support	Ngl	elephant		elephant's neck			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme on neck=Source

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

He grabbed him with his tusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tusk	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tusk	nmod:poss
6	tusk	tusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	him = he				with his tusk	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He swung him up with his trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swung	nsubj
2	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swung	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 swung	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 trunk	nmod:poss
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing up	past	He	him = he				with his trunk	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

With his trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 trunk	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 trunk	nmod:poss
3	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

He wrapped him in his trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrapped	nsubj
2	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrapped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trunk	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trunk	nmod:poss
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past	He	him = he		his trunk			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in trunk=Destination

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