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title: fr, why did the village kids tease him so much — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, why did the village kids tease him so much Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 12: Mowgli reache…

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fr, why did the village kids tease him so much

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** tease · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t7:1
# text = fr, why did the village kids tease him so much
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tease	tease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | past · do-support | fr | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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he owed them money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t7:o1:1
# text = he owed them money
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | past | he | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal money=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he broke their pots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t7:o2:1
# text = he broke their pots
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | he | their pots |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he stole their food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t7:o3:1
# text = he stole their food
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | he | their food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |

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

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he would not play games or fly kites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:611-pg236-part12:t7:o4:1
# text = he would not play games or fly kites
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	kites	kite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | would | he | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | he *not said here* | kites |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kite=Theme |

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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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