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title: how old is Sea Catch, like, a real geezer? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: how old is Sea Catch, like, a real geezer? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mova's
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

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how old is Sea Catch, like, a real geezer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old Sea Catch

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t9:1
# text = how old is Sea Catch, like, a real geezer?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Catch	Catch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | old Sea Catch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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twelve, a proper young lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t9:o1:1
# text = twelve, a proper young lad
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
eight, a proper young pup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t9:o2:1
# text = eight, a proper young pup
1	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pup	pup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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old, dunno

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t9:o3:1
# text = old, dunno
1	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dunno	dunno	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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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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fifteen, a proper old fighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:615-pg236-part16:t9:o4:1
# text = fifteen, a proper old fighter
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fighter	fighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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