Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

So what did Toomai do when he couldn't count them all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toomai · What happens: do, not count · To what, where: them

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 count	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 count	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 count	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 count	advmod
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 count	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 them	nmod:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Toomai						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	not count	could	Toomai	them = they					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He counted on his fingers again and again

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 counted	nsubj
2	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 fingers	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fingers	nmod:poss
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counted	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 counted	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 again	cc
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	He				again	on his fingers	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on finger=Theme

Option 2

He tried counting the dark shapes in the moonlight, but he kept losing track and then getting more confused

The tree, 19 words

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tried	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shapes	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shapes	amod
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 moonlight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moonlight	det
9	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shapes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
14	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
15	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 losing	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 getting	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 getting	advmod
18	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 losing	conj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 confused	advmod
20	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	count not said to happen	gerund	He not said here	the dark shapes	the moonlight			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
3	keep	past	he					tree rules
4	lose	gerund	he not said here	track				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Eventuality
5	get	gerund	he not said here			then	confused property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He kept counting, then stopped

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stopped	advmod
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	keep	past	He		tree rules
2	count	gerund	He not said here		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	stop	past		then	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

He tried to count them one by one, but every time he lost his place he started over from the beginning

The tree, 21 words

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 count	mark
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 count	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 count	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 started	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 started	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 started	obl:unmarked
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
14	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 place	nmod:poss
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 started	nsubj
18	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
19	over	over	ADV	_	18 started	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 beginning	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beginning	det
22	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	count not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	them = they			tree rules
3	lose	past	he	his place			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality
4	start over	past	he		from the beginning; time	over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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