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title: Bagheera offered a bull, yeah? How big a bull? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bagheera offered a bull, yeah? How big a bull? Test 8 · ★ 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 question and of each option; M
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# Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…

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Bagheera offered a bull, yeah? How big a bull?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bagheera · **What happens:** offer · **To what, where:** bull

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Bagheera offered a bull, yeah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:t8:1
# text = Bagheera offered a bull, yeah?
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | Bagheera | a bull |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bull=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How big a bull?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:t8:2
# text = How big a bull?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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a small one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:t8:o1:1
# text = a small one
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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two lean ones, long dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:t8:o2:1
# text = two lean ones, long dead
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a fat one, newly killed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:t8:o3:1
# text = a fat one, newly killed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | participle |  | a fat one *not said here* |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a fat bull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:601-pg236-part2:t8:o4:1
# text = a fat bull
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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