Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

Bro, what's the troop-horse's last line about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: last line

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 line	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 line	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 line	cop
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	11 line	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 horse	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 line	amod
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
12	about	about	ADP	_	11 line	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	the troop horse's last line					tree rules

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

the fights are always fair and never last long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fights	det
2	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fair	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fair	advmod
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 last	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 last	advmod
8	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fair	conj
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fights					always, fair property	tree rules
2	not last	infinitive	the fights not said here					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they fight in different ways

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 fight	nsubj
2	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ways	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ways	amod
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present	they			different ways			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

both of them are brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 brave	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 both	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both					brave property	tree rules

Option 4

they fight in different ways, so nobody ever wins

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 fight	nsubj
2	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ways	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ways	amod
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fight	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wins	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 wins	advmod
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 wins	nsubj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 wins	advmod
10	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present	they			different ways			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	win	present	nobody				ever		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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