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title: real talk, what was the big thorn bush doing — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, what was the big thorn bush doing Test 13 · ★ of lesson 611 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reaches a village and is taken in as a lost son» 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 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

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real talk, what was the big thorn bush doing

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** real talk, big thorn bush · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** big thorn bush

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 611 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reaches a village and is taken in as a lost son» 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/611-pg236-part12/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t13:1
# text = real talk, what was the big thorn bush doing
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | real talk | the big thorn bush |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the big thorn bush *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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it was pushed to one side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t13:o1:1
# text = it was pushed to one side
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past · passive |  | it |  | one side |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to side=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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it was growing wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t13:o2:1
# text = it was growing wild
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | it |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it was on fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t13:o3:1
# text = it was on fire
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  | fire |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it was guarding a tiger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t13:o4:1
# text = it was guarding a tiger
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past · progressive | it |  | a tiger |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Beneficiary |

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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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