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title: lowkey, did Matkah sing to her pup? — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey, did Matkah sing to her pup? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 616 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered, Kotick is born white, and he grows up to fish at sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

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lowkey, did Matkah sing to her pup?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lowkey · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** pup

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 616 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered, Kotick is born white, and he grows up to fish at sea» 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/616-pg236-part17/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t13:1
# text = lowkey, did Matkah sing to her pup?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pup	pup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · do-support | lowkey |  | Matkah's pup |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to pup=Recipient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a crooning song about swimming late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t13:o1:1
# text = Yeah, a crooning song about swimming late
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	crooning	croon	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croon** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a sleepy tune about the tides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t13:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a sleepy tune about the tides
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she sang a whole chorus about the sea, the sand, the storms and the bulls

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t13:o3:1
# text = Yeah, she sang a whole chorus about the sea, the sand, the storms and the bulls
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | she | a whole chorus |  |  |  | about the sea and the sand; the storms and the bulls *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chorus=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a long crooning song about never going in the sea until she was big and strong

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t13:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a long crooning song about never going in the sea until she was big and strong
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	crooning	crooning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | gerund | a long crooning song *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | about *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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