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title: ngl, what did the gulls call Sea Vitch? — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did the gulls call Sea Vitch? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 618 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea Vitch, then searches the seas for a quiet island and finds men had been there first» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

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ngl, what did the gulls call Sea Vitch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl, gulls · **What happens:** do, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 618 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea Vitch, then searches the seas for a quiet island and finds men had been there first» 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/618-pg236-part19/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t12:1
# text = ngl, what did the gulls call Sea Vitch?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | the gulls |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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louder with bad manners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t12:o1:1
# text = louder with bad manners
1	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rude birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t12:o2:1
# text = rude birds
1	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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smellier and more rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t12:o3:1
# text = smellier and more rude
1	smellier	smelly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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uglier with worse manners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t12:o4:1
# text = uglier with worse manners
1	uglier	ugly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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