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title: Oi, what did the monkeys reckon Kaa was called? — The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what did the monkeys reckon Kaa was called? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 607 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera seek Kaa's help, then learn Mowgli has been taken to the Cold Lairs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

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Oi, what did the monkeys reckon Kaa was called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monkeys · **What happens:** reckon, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 607 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera seek Kaa's help, then learn Mowgli has been taken to the Cold Lairs» 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/607-pg236-part8/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t4:1
# text = Oi, what did the monkeys reckon Kaa was called?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the monkeys |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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Big rock hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t4:o1:1
# text = Big rock hunter
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Old snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t4:o2:1
# text = Old snake
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	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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Rock dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t4:o3:1
# text = Rock dog
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Yellow earth-worm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t4:o4:1
# text = Yellow earth-worm
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	worm	worm	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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