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title: wait, who was the panther that kept saying "nay"? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, who was the panther that kept saying "nay"? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

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wait, who was the panther that kept saying "nay"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, panther · **What happens:** wait, be, keep, say · **To what, where:** panther · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» 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/615-pg236-part16/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t3:1
# text = wait, who was the panther that kept saying "nay"?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **is a** | past |  | the panther |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the panther |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the panther *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Bagheera, the black one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t3:o1:1
# text = Bagheera, the black one
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bagheera, the panther

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t3:o2:1
# text = Bagheera, the panther
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Baloo, the bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t3:o3:1
# text = Baloo, the bear
1	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shere Khan, the tiger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t3:o4:1
# text = Shere Khan, the tiger
1	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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