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title: bro, what did Kaa say the monkeys could not do? — Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashe… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did Kaa say the monkeys could not do? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 610 «Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the monkeys freeze under the Hunger Dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 10 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

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bro, what did Kaa say the monkeys could not do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kaa, monkeys · **What happens:** say, not do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 610 «Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the monkeys freeze under the Hunger Dance» 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/610-pg236-part11/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t10:1
# text = bro, what did Kaa say the monkeys could not do?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Kaa |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | could | the monkeys |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 {#o1}

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Climb or swing without his command

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t10:o1:1
# text = Climb or swing without his command
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	swing	swing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without his command | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swing** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **command** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stir foot or hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t10:o2:1
# text = Stir foot or hand
1	Stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | imperative | you *not said here* | foot or hand |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Leap or swing before his order arrives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t10:o3:1
# text = Leap or swing before his order arrives
1	Leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | his order |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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Stir foot or hand without his order

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t10:o4:1
# text = Stir foot or hand without his order
1	Stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | imperative | you *not said here* | foot or hand |  |  |  | without his order | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer |
| 2 | **order** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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