Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Chill, was Toomai feeling fine when he got to camp?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toomai · What happens: feel, get, camp

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chill	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	aux
4	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
5	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 camp	mark
11	camp	camp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 got	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	Toomai	Chill vocative; fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	Toomai		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	camp	to-infinitive	Toomai not said here		vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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

no, pale and shaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 pale	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pale	punct
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shaking	cc
5	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no, gray and pinched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 gray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gray	punct
3	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pinched	cc
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gray	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	participle							vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

no, he looked gray and pinched and nearly fainted from the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pinched	cc
7	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gray	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fainted	cc
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 fainted	advmod
10	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 cold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fainted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past	he	gray property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	pinch	participle	he not said here		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	faint	past	he not said here	from the cold; nearly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from cold=Stimulus

Option 4

no, red and swollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 swollen	cc
5	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj

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

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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