--- title: Mate, how many years did Kala Nag work for the Government, innit? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, how many years did Kala Nag work for the Government, innit? Test 2 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/624-pg236-part25/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/624-pg236-part25/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag… Mate, how many years did Kala Nag work for the Government, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many years · **What happens:** work, innit This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t2:1 # text = Mate, how many years did Kala Nag work for the Government, innit? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 Kala Kala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 Nag Nag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | past · do-support | many years | | | | | for the Government | tree rules | | 2 | **innit** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | 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} forty-seven years for the Government ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t2:o1:1 # text = forty-seven years for the Government 1 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} forty-seven years of hard service for the Government ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t2:o2:1 # text = forty-seven years of hard service for the Government 1 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} forty-seven years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t2:o3:1 # text = forty-seven years 1 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} thirty-seven years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t2:o4:1 # text = thirty-seven years 1 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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