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title: Nan says Bagheera's eyes were proper hard, what was the stone they l… — The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nan says Bagheera's eyes were proper hard, what was the stone they looked like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 605 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowgli the Master Words, and Mowgli boasts of a monkey tribe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowg…

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Nan says Bagheera's eyes were proper hard, what was the stone they looked like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nan, eyes · **What happens:** say, be, look · **To what, where:** eyes, stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 605 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowgli the Master Words, and Mowgli boasts of a monkey tribe» 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/605-pg236-part6/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:605-pg236-part6:t11:1
# text = Nan says Bagheera's eyes were proper hard, what was the stone they looked like?
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan | Bagheera's eyes and the stone |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | Bagheera's eyes and the stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard, properly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Bagheera's eyes and the stone | the stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | eyes *= eye* | the stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Attribute |

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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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A green stone like river moss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:605-pg236-part6:t11:o1:1
# text = A green stone like river moss
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Onyx

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:605-pg236-part6:t11:o2:1
# text = Onyx
1	Onyx	Onyx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dark polished emerald of the cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:605-pg236-part6:t11:o3:1
# text = Dark polished emerald of the cave
1	Dark	Dark	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	polished	polish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **polish** | past | Dark | emerald of the cave |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent emerald=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Jade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:605-pg236-part6:t11:o4:1
# text = Jade
1	Jade	jade	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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