Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…

Bro, what made the young mule freeze up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young mule · What happens: make, freeze up · To what, where: young mule

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mule	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mule	amod
7	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 freeze	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the young mule				Bro vocative	tree rules
2	freeze up	infinitive	the young mule not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

he thought the dark things were monsters

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 monsters	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 monsters	cop
7	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the dark things	monsters					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he took the dark shapes for wild cats

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shapes	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shapes	amod
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cats	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cats	amod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	the dark shapes				for wild cats	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shape=Theme for cat=Beneficiary

Option 3

the dark things had come to eat the whole regiment of mules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 things	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 regiment	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 regiment	amod
10	regiment	regiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mules	case
12	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 regiment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect · passive		the dark things					tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive		the whole regiment of mules					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regiment=Patient

Option 4

he believed the dark things were large demons

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 demons	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 demons	cop
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 demons	amod
8	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 believed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the dark things	large demons					tree rules

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