Test 1 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Yaar, what did Toomai do when the stomping got super loud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toomai · What happens: do, stomp, get

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» 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	Yaar	Yaar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yaar	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 got	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 got	det
9	stomping	stomp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
11	super	super	ADV	_	12 loud	advmod
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Toomai	Yaar vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	stomp	gerund			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past		loud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He shouted at them

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 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He					at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He covered his ears

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 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ears	nmod:poss
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 covered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	He	his ears					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Destination

Option 3

He pressed his hands hard against his ears and shut his eyes tight

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 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pressed	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pressed	advmod
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pressed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shut	cc
10	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pressed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shut	obj
13	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shut	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	He	his hands				against his ears; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	shut	past	He not said here	his eyes				tight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 4

He sat very still

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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