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title: By what mode did the Pack Council identify each cub presented before… — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what mode did the Pack Council identify each cub presented before it? Exam question 3 of lesson 601 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over the man-cub and a hearing at the Council Rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…

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By what mode did the Pack Council identify each cub presented before it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mode, Pack Council · **What happens:** do, identify, present · **To what, where:** cub

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 601 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over the man-cub and a hearing at the Council Rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/601-pg236-part2/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e3:1
# text = By what mode did the Pack Council identify each cub presented before it?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Pack	Pack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | mode |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **identify** | present | the Pack Council | each cub |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cub=Theme |
| 3 | **present** | participle |  | each cub *not said here* |  |  | before Council |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Inspection by the wolves, who looked carefully at each cub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e3:o1:1
# text = Inspection by the wolves, who looked carefully at each cub
1	Inspection	inspection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Inspection by the wolves |  |  |  |  | at each cub; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cub=Theme |
| 2 | **inspect** |  | the wolves |  |  |  |  |  | nom inspection «act transitive»: by=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By a secret mark each wolf wore upon the face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e3:o2:1
# text = By a secret mark each wolf wore upon the face
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | each wolf |  |  |  |  | by a secret mark; upon the face | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By the wolves' howls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e3:o3:1
# text = By the wolves' howls
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	howls	howl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** |  | the wolves |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By their smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e3:o4:1
# text = By their smell
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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**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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