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title: Bruv, what did Little Toomai call Kala Nag to his face? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did Little Toomai call Kala Nag to his face? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

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Bruv, what did Little Toomai call Kala Nag to his face?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Little · **What happens:** do, call · **To what, where:** face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what did Little Toomai call Kala Nag to his face?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
9	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | Little |  | Kala's face |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to face=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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old pig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t3:o1:1
# text = old pig
1	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	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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a lazy old fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t3:o2:1
# text = a lazy old fool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a fat old pig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t3:o3:1
# text = a fat old pig
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fat fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t3:o4:1
# text = fat fool
1	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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