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title: what did Rann promise to do for Bagheera's kill? — Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Rann promise to do for Bagheera's kill? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 608 «Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped by the monkeys in the ruined Cold Lairs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped…

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what did Rann promise to do for Bagheera's kill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rann, Bagheera · **What happens:** promise, do, kill

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 608 «Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 9: Mowgli is trapped by the monkeys in the ruined 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/608-pg236-part9/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:608-pg236-part9:t13:1
# text = what did Rann promise to do for Bagheera's kill?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Rann	Rann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Rann |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rann *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Bagheera's kill | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** |  | Bagheera |  |  |  |  |  | nom kill «act transitive»: poss=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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Hold the tail for him now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:608-pg236-part9:t13:o1:1
# text = Hold the tail for him now
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tail |  |  | now | for him *= he* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Keep the meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:608-pg236-part9:t13:o2:1
# text = Keep the meat
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |

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

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Put aside the head for him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:608-pg236-part9:t13:o3:1
# text = Put aside the head for him
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | the head |  |  |  | for him *= he*; aside *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Give him food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:608-pg236-part9:t13:o4:1
# text = Give him food
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | food | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme |

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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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