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title: What did Mother Wolf reckon would happen? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Mother Wolf reckon would happen? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 614 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Khan and is cast out by the village» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Kha…

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What did Mother Wolf reckon would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 614 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Khan and is cast out by the village» 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/614-pg236-part15/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t11:1
# text = What did Mother Wolf reckon would happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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He would flee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t11:o1:1
# text = He would flee
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | would | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The hunter would be chased

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t11:o2:1
# text = The hunter would be chased
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | would · passive |  | the hunter |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He'd be caught

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t11:o3:1
# text = He'd be caught
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | would · passive |  | He |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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

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The hunter would be hunted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t11:o4:1
# text = The hunter would be hunted
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | would · passive |  | the hunter |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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