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title: so what made Kotick go and ask Sea Vitch anyway? — Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what made Kotick go and ask Sea Vitch anyway? Test 13 · ★ 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 question a
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# Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

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so what made Kotick go and ask Sea Vitch anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kotick · **What happens:** make, go, ask · **To what, where:** Kotick, Sea

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t13:1
# text = so what made Kotick go and ask Sea Vitch anyway?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | Kotick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Kotick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Kotick *not said here* |  | Sea |  |  | anyway *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sea=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The sea lion sent him there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t13:o1:1
# text = The sea lion sent him there
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the sea lion | him *= he* |  | there |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The sea lion told him where the walrus lived and he went at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t13:o2:1
# text = The sea lion told him where the walrus lived and he went at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walrus	walrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the sea lion |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **live** | past | the walrus |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | walrus |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fear of the hunters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t13:o3:1
# text = Fear of the hunters
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** |  |  | the hunters |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He wanted a new home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t13:o4:1
# text = He wanted a new home
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He | a new home |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=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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