Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

Bruv, where was Two Tails stuck for the night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: Two Tails

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tails	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 Tails	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Tails	cop
5	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Tails	nummod
6	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bruv	appos
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Tails	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Two Tails					tree rules
2	stick	participle		Two Tails not said here			night		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

chained to a picket beside the big camel and the cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 picket	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 picket	det
4	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chained	obl
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 camel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camel	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 camel	amod
8	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chained	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cattle	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cattle	det
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 camel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain	participle				the big camel and the cattle		to a picket	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to picket=Co-Patient

Option 2

tied up on a picket rope in the cold yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 rope	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
5	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rope	compound
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tied	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 yard	amod
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	participle						in the cold yard; on a picket rope	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on rope=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

tied up on a picket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 picket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 picket	det
5	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	participle						on a picket	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on picket=Co-Patient

Option 4

tied to the fence rail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 rail	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rail	det
4	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rail	compound
5	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle						to the fence rail	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to rail=Co-Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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