---
title: Which creatures seized Mowgli and carried him through the treetops? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creatures seized Mowgli and carried him through the treetops? Exam question 1 of lesson 606 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/606-pg236-part7/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/606-pg236-part7/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which creatures seized Mowgli and carried him through the treetops?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creatures · **What happens:** seize, carry · **To what, where:** Mowgli, treetops

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 606 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops» 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/606-pg236-part7/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:e1:1
# text = Which creatures seized Mowgli and carried him through the treetops?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	treetops	treetop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | which creatures | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | which creatures *not said here* | Mowgli |  | the treetops |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The two strongest of the Bandar-log

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:e1:o1:1
# text = The two strongest of the Bandar-log
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two of the monkey troop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:e1:o2:1
# text = Two of the monkey troop
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The two strongest of the Bandar-log, swinging from the high vines together

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:e1:o3:1
# text = The two strongest of the Bandar-log, swinging from the high vines together
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | gerund |  |  |  | the high vines |  | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from vine=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The two biggest monkeys of the troop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:e1:o4:1
# text = The two biggest monkeys of the troop
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/606-pg236-part7/t12/)
- next →: [The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/606-pg236-part7/e2/)
- ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/606-pg236-part7/)