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title: which way u gotta swim if ur tail tingles down south? — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: which way u gotta swim if ur tail tingles down south? Test 8 · ★ 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 que
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# Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
which way u gotta swim if ur tail tingles down south?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** u, tail · **What happens:** swim, tingle down · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t8:1
# text = which way u gotta swim if ur tail tingles down south?
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	gotta	gotta	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tingles	tingle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	south	south	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | u | which way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tingle down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ur's tail |  |  |  |  | down, south *property* | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
East, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t8:o1:1
# text = East, mate
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Head north, mate, cuz the tingle means a gale is coming soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t8:o2:1
# text = Head north, mate, cuz the tingle means a gale is coming soon
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	north	north	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tingle	tingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | infinitive |  | the tingle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present · progressive | a gale |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
North, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t8:o3:1
# text = North, mate
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go north, bro, the Sticky Water is over that way, so don't go south

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t8:o4:1
# text = Go north, bro, the Sticky Water is over that way, so don't go south
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	north	north	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	south	south	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Sticky Water |  |  | that way |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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