---
title: what did Baloo swear he would never do again? — Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashe… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Baloo swear he would never do again? Test 7 · ★ 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 ch
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/610-pg236-part11/t7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/610-pg236-part11/) / t7

# Test 7 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what did Baloo swear he would never do again?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Baloo · **What happens:** swear, not do

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t7:1
# text = what did Baloo swear he would never do again?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past · do-support | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | would | Baloo |  |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Trust Kaa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t7:o1:1
# text = Trust Kaa
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Befriend the big snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t7:o2:1
# text = Befriend the big snake
1	Befriend	befriend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befriend** | imperative | you *not said here* | the big snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Team up with Kaa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t7:o3:1
# text = Team up with Kaa
1	Team	team	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **team up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Kaa | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with kaa=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Team up with monkeys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:610-pg236-part11:t7:o4:1
# text = Team up with monkeys
1	Team	team	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **team up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with monkeys | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with monkey=Co-Agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashe…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/610-pg236-part11/t6/)
- next →: [Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashe…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/610-pg236-part11/t8/)
- ↑ back to [Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the monkeys freeze under the Hunger Dance](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/610-pg236-part11/)

