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title: fam what did Mowgli do to laugh at the monkeys from the trap — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam what did Mowgli do to laugh at the monkeys from the trap Test 13 · ★ 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 and 
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# Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

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fam what did Mowgli do to laugh at the monkeys from the trap

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** laugh · **To what, where:** trap

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t13:1
# text = fam what did Mowgli do to laugh at the monkeys from the trap
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | to-infinitive · do-support | fam |  |  | the trap |  | at the monkeys | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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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hissed like a snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t13:o1:1
# text = hissed like a snake
1	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hiss** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a snake | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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barked like a dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t13:o2:1
# text = barked like a dog
1	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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hooted like an owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t13:o3:1
# text = hooted like an owl
1	hooted	hoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hoot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a owl | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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laughed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t13:o4:1
# text = laughed
1	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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