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title: By what means did Mowgli survive the fall from the summerhouse witho… — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did Mowgli survive the fall from the summerhouse without serious injury? Exam question 4 of lesson 609 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

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By what means did Mowgli survive the fall from the summerhouse without serious injury?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mowgli · **What happens:** mean, survive · **To what, where:** fall, summerhouse

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 609 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped» 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/609-pg236-part10/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:e4:1
# text = By what means did Mowgli survive the fall from the summerhouse without serious injury?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	summerhouse	summerhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **survive** | past · do-support | Mowgli | the fall |  | the summerhouse |  | without serious injury | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Circumstance |

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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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He landed well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:e4:o1:1
# text = He landed well
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | He |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By landing on his feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:e4:o2:1
# text = By landing on his feet
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | gerund |  |  |  | his feet |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination |

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

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Falling as Baloo taught

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:e4:o3:1
# text = Falling as Baloo taught
1	Falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as Baloo | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Falling |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Using the soft ground below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:e4:o4:1
# text = Using the soft ground below
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	below	below	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | the soft ground |  |  |  | below *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |

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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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