Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…
Was Pudmini just hanging around the camp, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pudmini · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: Pudmini, camp
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pudmini | cop |
| 2 | Pudmini | Pudmini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hanging | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 hanging | advmod |
| 4 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hanging | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hanging | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hanging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Pudmini | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | Pudmini | the camp | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around camp=Location |
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
She broke her chain and came running
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chain | nmod:poss |
| 4 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | She | her chain | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | She not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | She not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
She stayed tied by the lines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | aux:pass |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 lines | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lines | det |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | the lines | She | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
Option 3
She was tied up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | aux:pass |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tied | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | past · passive | She | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
She pulled free and ran up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | She | free property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run up | past | She not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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