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title: What was the intended purpose of dividing the herd? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the intended purpose of dividing the herd? Exam question 3 of lesson 613 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd crushes Shere Khan in the ravine» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

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What was the intended purpose of dividing the herd?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** intended purpose · **What happens:** be, intend, divide · **To what, where:** herd

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 613 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd crushes Shere Khan in the ravine» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/613-pg236-part14/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e3:1
# text = What was the intended purpose of dividing the herd?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the intended purpose |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **divide** | gerund | the intended purpose *not said here* | the herd |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |

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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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To make the herd smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e3:o1:1
# text = To make the herd smaller
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the herd |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herd=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To keep the cows safe from the tiger's claws

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e3:o2:1
# text = To keep the cows safe from the tiger's claws
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  | the cows | the tiger's claws |  | safe *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cow=Beneficiary from claw=Eventuality |

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

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To prevent the bulls and cows from uniting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e3:o3:1
# text = To prevent the bulls and cows from uniting
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	uniting	uniting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  |  | the bulls and cows | uniting |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer bull=Beneficiary from uniting=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To confuse the tiger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e3:o4:1
# text = To confuse the tiger
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	confuse	confuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confuse** | to-infinitive |  | the tiger |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient |

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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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