Test 9 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Bro, what did the elephants do to the grass?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: elephants · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephants	det
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the elephants					to the grass	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

trampled every blade of it flat and tore up the roots below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tore	advcl
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 blade	det
3	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 trampled	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blade	nmod
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 trampled	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tore	cc
8	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 tore	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roots	det
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tore	obj
12	below	below	ADV	_	11 roots	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trample	participle		every blade of blade				flat property	tree rules
2	tore up	past		the roots					tree rules

Option 2

burned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

tore it apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tore	obj
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 tore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past		it				apart property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

trampled it flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 trampled	obj
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 trampled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trample	past		it				flat property	tree rules

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