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title: fr, what did the seals do on the new grass after the swim? — Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the seals do on the new grass after the swim? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 617 «Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

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fr, what did the seals do on the new grass after the swim?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** seals · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** new grass

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 617 «Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe» 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/617-pg236-part18/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t12:1
# text = fr, what did the seals do on the new grass after the swim?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the seals |  |  | the new grass | after the swim |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 {#o1}

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Hunted fish and built nests along the sandy shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t12:o1:1
# text = Hunted fish and built nests along the sandy shore
1	Hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
5	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | participle |  | fish |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lay still in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t12:o2:1
# text = Lay still in the sun
1	Lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the sun | still |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sun=Destination |

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

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Rolled and told stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t12:o3:1
# text = Rolled and told stories
1	Rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sang and played games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t12:o4:1
# text = Sang and played games
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Sang | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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