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title: Sick, what was his job at Moulmein, like, what did he do? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what was his job at Moulmein, like, what did he do? Test 7 · ★ 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 prag
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

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Sick, what was his job at Moulmein, like, what did he do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Moulmein · **What happens:** sick, be, do · **To what, where:** job, Moulmein

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t7:1
# text = Sick, what was his job at Moulmein, like, what did he do?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Moulmein	Moulmein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | his job |  | Moulmein |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past · do-support | Moulmein |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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pull teak logs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t7:o1:1
# text = pull teak logs
1	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	teak	teak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | teak logs |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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haul big teak balks out of the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t7:o2:1
# text = haul big teak balks out of the river
1	haul	haul	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	teak	teak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	balks	balk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | imperative | you *not said here* | big teak balks |  | the river |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent balk=Theme out river=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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haul timber rafts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t7:o3:1
# text = haul timber rafts
1	haul	haul	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | imperative | you *not said here* | timber rafts |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Theme |

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

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haul teak balks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t7:o4:1
# text = haul teak balks
1	haul	haul	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	teak	teak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	balks	balk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | imperative | you *not said here* | teak balks |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balk=Theme |

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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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