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title: wait so Baloo was like mad smushed but still wild, what did he do — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait so Baloo was like mad smushed but still wild, what did he do Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

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wait so Baloo was like mad smushed but still wild, what did he do

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Baloo · **What happens:** wait, be, smush, do · **To what, where:** Baloo

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t5:1
# text = wait so Baloo was like mad smushed but still wild, what did he do
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	appos	_	_
7	smushed	smush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | Baloo |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past · do-support | Baloo | Baloo |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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he chased em off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t5:o1:1
# text = he chased em off
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase off** | past | he | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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he called Kaa over to help him batter all the monkeys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t5:o2:1
# text = he called Kaa over to help him batter all the monkeys
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	batter	batter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call over** *speech: assert* | past | he |  | Kaa |  |  | over *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kaa=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | Kaa |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **batter** | infinitive | Kaa *not said here* | all monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent monkey=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he threw em down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t5:o3:1
# text = he threw em down
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | past | he | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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hugged and batted em

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:609-pg236-part10:t5:o4:1
# text = hugged and batted em
1	hugged	hug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	batted	bat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hug** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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