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title: Dude, which bird spotted Mowgli and came to tell? — The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, which bird spotted Mowgli and came to tell? Test 6 · ★ 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 que
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# Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

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Dude, which bird spotted Mowgli and came to tell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** spot, come, tell · **To what, where:** Mowgli · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t6:1
# text = Dude, which bird spotted Mowgli and came to tell?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | past | Dude and which bird |  | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mowgli=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | Dude and which bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Dude and which bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Hathi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t6:o1:1
# text = Hathi
1	Hathi	Hathi	PROPN	NNP	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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Mang the Bat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t6:o2:1
# text = Mang the Bat
1	Mang	mang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mang** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Bat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Rann the Kite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t6:o3:1
# text = Rann the Kite
1	Rann	Rann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Kite	Kite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t6:o4:1
# text = The Crow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crow	crow	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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