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title: Wait, what did the priest wave to chase Mowgli off? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the priest wave to chase Mowgli off? Test 4 · ★ 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 c
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers: Mowgli skins Shere Kha…

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Wait, what did the priest wave to chase Mowgli off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, do, chase off · **To what, where:** priest wave, Mowgli

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t4:1
# text = Wait, what did the priest wave to chase Mowgli off?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the priest wave |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Eventuality |
| 3 | **chase off** | to-infinitive |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=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 {#o1}

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A holy cross bead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t4:o1:1
# text = A holy cross bead
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bead	bead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Some herbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t4:o2:1
# text = Some herbs
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A sacred basil leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t4:o3:1
# text = A sacred basil leaf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	basil	basil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A holy tulsi sprig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:614-pg236-part15:t4:o4:1
# text = A holy tulsi sprig
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tulsi	tulsi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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