--- title: Which creature offered a fat bull in exchange for the life of the cub? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Which creature offered a fat bull in exchange for the life of the cub? Exam question 4 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 q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/601-pg236-part2/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/601-pg236-part2/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t… Which creature offered a fat bull in exchange for the life of the cub? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** offer · **To what, where:** fat bull, exchange This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e4:1 # text = Which creature offered a fat bull in exchange for the life of the cub? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cub cub NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **offer** | past | which creature | a fat bull | | exchange | | for the life of the cub *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent bull=Theme for life=Goal | 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 {#o1} Shere Khan the Tiger ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e4:o1:1 # text = Shere Khan the Tiger 1 Shere Shere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Khan Khan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Bagheera the Black Panther ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e4:o2:1 # text = Bagheera the Black Panther 1 Bagheera Bagheera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Panther Panther PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Bagheera the Black Panther, who spoke for the cub ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e4:o3:1 # text = Bagheera the Black Panther, who spoke for the cub 1 Bagheera Bagheera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Panther Panther PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cub cub NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Bagheera | | | | | for the cub | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Bagheera the Black Panther of the jungle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:e4:o4:1 # text = Bagheera the Black Panther of the jungle 1 Bagheera Bagheera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Panther Panther PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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