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title: wait who got the nastiest hit, like the one that knocked em flat — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait who got the nastiest hit, like the one that knocked em flat Test 12 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

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wait who got the nastiest hit, like the one that knocked em flat

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** wait, get, knock · **To what, where:** nastiest hit

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t12:1
# text = wait who got the nastiest hit, like the one that knocked em flat
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nastiest	nasty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	em	em	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past |  | the nastiest hit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **knock** | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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Kaa's bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t12:o1:1
# text = Kaa's bite
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** |  | Kaa |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The big hit Baloo gave when he hugged them all at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t12:o2:1
# text = The big hit Baloo gave when he hugged them all at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hugged	hug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the big hit |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hug** | past | hit | them *= they* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |

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

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Kaa's first strike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t12:o3:1
# text = Kaa's first strike
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** |  | Kaa |  |  |  |  |  | nom strike «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Baloo's big swing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t12:o4:1
# text = Baloo's big swing
1	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** |  | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | nom swing «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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