Test 3 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

No way, why did the two animals stop going at it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two animals · What happens: stop, go · To what, where: way

This is test 3 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stop	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 animals	nummod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stop	nsubj
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	the two animals						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	the two animals not said here			way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at it=Location

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

elephant's voice shut them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 elephant	case
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past	elephant's voice	them = they					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

an old elephant trumpeted and both animals stopped fighting right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 elephant	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephant	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
4	trumpeted	trumpet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 elephant	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 animals	cc
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trumpeted	conj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 fighting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trumpet	participle		a old elephant not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	a old elephant			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	fight	gerund	a old elephant not said here		away property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the bullocks came running in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bullocks	det
2	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the bullocks						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	the bullocks not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the elephant's voice shut them up before the whole herd ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voice	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 elephant	case
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	nsubj
5	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shut	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 shut	compound:prt
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 ran	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 herd	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 herd	amod
11	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	advcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past	the elephant's voice	them = they					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	run away	past	the whole herd					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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