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title: Blud, what's Kaa always after, like? — The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blud, what's Kaa always after, like? Test 9 · ★ 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 question and of 
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

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Blud, what's Kaa always after, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Blud Kaa

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t9:1
# text = Blud, what's Kaa always after, like?
1	Blud	Blud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Blud Kaa |  |  |  | after *property* | tree rules |

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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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Any monkey who wanders alone along the river path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t9:o1:1
# text = Any monkey who wanders alone along the river path
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | present | any monkey |  |  | the river path |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Anything that moves in the jungle, every single day and night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t9:o2:1
# text = Anything that moves in the jungle, every single day and night
1	Anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present |  |  |  | the jungle |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in jungle=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Something to eat, he's always starving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t9:o3:1
# text = Something to eat, he's always starving
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **starve** | present · progressive | he |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mice and birds on the riverbank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:607-pg236-part8:t9:o4:1
# text = Mice and birds on the riverbank
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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