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title: yo, what was Darzee doing all morning? — The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what was Darzee doing all morning? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 622 «The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhears the cobras' plot and waits to strike» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

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yo, what was Darzee doing all morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, do

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 622 «The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhears the cobras' plot and waits to strike» 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/622-pg236-part23/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t6:1
# text = yo, what was Darzee doing all morning?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Darzee	darzee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | darzee *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  | morning |  | 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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Singing loud about Nag dying, then going to sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t6:o1:1
# text = Singing loud about Nag dying, then going to sleep
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | Nag |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Singing |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Singing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Singing loud about the snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t6:o2:1
# text = Singing loud about the snake
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the snake; loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about snake=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Singing loud about Nag dying, all over the garden tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t6:o3:1
# text = Singing loud about Nag dying, all over the garden tree
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | the garden tree |  | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Location |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | Nag |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Singing loud about Nag dying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t6:o4:1
# text = Singing loud about Nag dying
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about Nag; loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about nag=Location |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | Singing |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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