--- title: Dead serious, what made him back into the rifles? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead serious, what made him back into the rifles? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/624-pg236-part25/t5/) [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/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag… Dead serious, what made him back into the rifles? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make back · **To what, where:** him, rifles This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t5:1 # text = Dead serious, what made him back into the rifles? 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rifles rifle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make back** | past | | him *= he* | | the rifles | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | 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} a bullet hitting ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t5:o1:1 # text = a bullet hitting 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bullet bullet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | gerund | a bullet *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} a cannon firing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t5:o2:1 # text = a cannon firing 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cannon cannon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 firing firing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} a shell going off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t5:o3:1 # text = a shell going off 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go off** | gerund | a shell *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} a shell going off near the line ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t5:o4:1 # text = a shell going off near the line 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go off** | gerund | a shell *not said here* | | | the line | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near line=Location | **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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