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title: where'd they say they'd play with him, like at night? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: where'd they say they'd play with him, like at night? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 604 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives the wolves off with fire, beats Shere Khan, and leaves the jungle in tears» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

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where'd they say they'd play with him, like at night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** say, play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 604 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives the wolves off with fire, beats Shere Khan, and leaves the jungle in tears» 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/604-pg236-part5/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:604-pg236-part5:t11:1
# text = where'd they say they'd play with him, like at night?
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl:relcl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** | would | they |  |  |  | night | with him *= he* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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 {#o1}

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in the croplands by night and by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:604-pg236-part5:t11:o1:1
# text = in the croplands by night and by the river
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	croplands	cropland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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in the croplands by night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:604-pg236-part5:t11:o2:1
# text = in the croplands by night
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	croplands	cropland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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at the river pool by day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:604-pg236-part5:t11:o3:1
# text = at the river pool by day
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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in the hills at moonrise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:604-pg236-part5:t11:o4:1
# text = in the hills at moonrise
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	moonrise	moonrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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