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title: Whose skin did Mowgli proceed to remove from the carcass? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whose skin did Mowgli proceed to remove from the carcass? Exam question 4 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 opti
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# Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

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Whose skin did Mowgli proceed to remove from the carcass?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** skin · **What happens:** proceed, remove · **To what, where:** carcass

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e4:1
# text = Whose skin did Mowgli proceed to remove from the carcass?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	carcass	carcass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past · do-support | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remove** | to-infinitive | skin *not said here* |  |  | the carcass |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from carcass=Source |

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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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the tiger's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e4:o1:1
# text = the tiger's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the cow's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e4:o2:1
# text = the cow's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the bull's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e4:o3:1
# text = the bull's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the jackal's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:613-pg236-part14:e4:o4:1
# text = the jackal's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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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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