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title: wait, what dance did Kaa do to freeze the monkeys? — Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashe… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what dance did Kaa do to freeze the monkeys? Test 3 · ★ 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
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# Test 3 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

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wait, what dance did Kaa do to freeze the monkeys?

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

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t3:1
# text = wait, what dance did Kaa do to freeze the monkeys?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · do-support | dance |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **freeze** | to-infinitive | dance *not said here* | the monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient monkey=Result |

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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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Freeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t3:o1:1
# text = Freeze
1	Freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Dance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t3:o2:1
# text = Dance
1	Dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Moonlight Waltz

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t3:o3:1
# text = The Moonlight Waltz
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Moonlight	Moonlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Waltz	Waltz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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The Hunger Dance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t3:o4:1
# text = The Hunger Dance
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hunger	Hunger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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