Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

mate, what's the bullocks' big secret, like the one way to fight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be, fight · To what, where: big secret

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 secret	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 secret	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 secret	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bullocks	det
6	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 secret	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 bullocks	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 secret	amod
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 way	nummod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fight	mark
16	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mate and the bullocks's big secret and the one way	the bullocks's big secret					tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive							vn battle-36.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

they pull the gun in a line

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	2 pull	nsubj
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gun	det
4	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	they	the gun		a line			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

all twenty yoke pull the big gun together across the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 yoke	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 yoke	nummod
3	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	nsubj
4	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gun	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gun	amod
7	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	all twenty yoke	the big gun		the plain		together property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

Option 3

they haul it up the hill one at a time

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	2 haul	nsubj
2	haul	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 haul	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 haul	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 haul	obl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hill	flat
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 haul	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul up	present	they	it			time	the hill obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

they strain together and drag the gun through mud and smoke

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	2 strain	nsubj
2	strain	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 strain	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drag	cc
5	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strain	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gun	det
7	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drag	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 mud	case
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drag	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smoke	cc
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strain	present	they					together property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
2	drag	present	they not said here	the gun		mud and smoke			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

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