Test 5 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…

Wait, what did the troop-horse reckon about the camels?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, reckon

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 629 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Shiva, then a wrecked tent and a noisy night among the army animals» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
6	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 troop	punct
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 camels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 camels	det
12	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reckon	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	past · do-support						about the camels	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

they had charged through again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charged	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 charged	aux
3	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	through	through	ADV	_	3 charged	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 charged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	past · perfect · passive		they			again	through property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

they had racketed through the lines again all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 racketed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 racketed	aux
3	racketed	racket	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 lines	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lines	det
6	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 racketed	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 racketed	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 racketed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	racket	past · perfect	they			the lines	again; night		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they had racketed through again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 racketed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 racketed	aux
3	racketed	racket	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 again	case
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 racketed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	racket	past · perfect	they						tree rules

Option 4

they had come racketing through the camp once more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	racketing	racket	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 come	advcl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 camp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 camp	det
7	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 racketing	obl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 racketing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	racket	gerund	they not said here			the camp			tree rules

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