Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

Sus, was anyone worried about Toomai up there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worried	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worried	cop
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 worried	nsubj
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Toomai	case
7	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 worried	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 worried	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 worried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sus					about Toomai; worried 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the elephants were not thinking of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 thinking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephants	det
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thinking	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 thinking	advmod
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · progressive	the elephants					of men	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, they were busy with dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 busy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 dancing	case
7	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					with dancing; busy property	tree rules

Option 3

Nope, the entire herd had gathered up there for the night and none of them would have cared if he fell off

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 gathered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herd	det
4	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 herd	amod
5	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathered	aux
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 gathered	compound:prt
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gathered	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cared	cc
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 cared	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 none	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cared	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 cared	aux
19	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 night	conj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 fell	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathered	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	gather up	past · perfect · passive		the entire herd	there	night	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	care	would · perfect · passive		none			tree rules
3	fall off a condition, not said to happen	past	he				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nah, the wild elephants were so busy with their own strange ceremony that they never even looked at the boy on top

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elephants	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 elephants	amod
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 busy	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 busy	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 busy	advmod
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 ceremony	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ceremony	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ceremony	amod
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ceremony	amod
13	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 busy	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj:pass
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 looked	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
18	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 busy	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 boy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl:agent
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 top	case
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wild elephants					with elephants's own strange ceremony; busy property	tree rules
2	not look	participle · passive	the boy on top	elephants = elephant					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Attribute

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