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title: Oi, where did the elephants die of cold and sunstroke? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, where did the elephants die of cold and sunstroke? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

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Oi, where did the elephants die of cold and sunstroke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi, elephants · **What happens:** do, die

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» 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/624-pg236-part25/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t12:1
# text = Oi, where did the elephants die of cold and sunstroke?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sunstroke	sunstroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Oi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | present | the elephants |  |  |  |  | of cold and sunstroke | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer |

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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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Kabul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t12:o1:1
# text = Kabul
1	Kabul	Kabul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Kandahar Pass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t12:o2:1
# text = Kandahar Pass
1	Kandahar	Kandahar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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

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Ali Musjid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t12:o3:1
# text = Ali Musjid
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Musjid	Musjid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Khyber Pass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t12:o4:1
# text = Khyber Pass
1	Khyber	Khyber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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