--- title: bet you can't guess who called him a young jungle-cock? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics description: bet you can't guess who called him a young jungle-cock? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 625 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded, then brought before Petersen Sahib» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/625-pg236-part26/t8/) [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/625-pg236-part26/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai… bet you can't guess who called him a young jungle-cock? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bet, not guess, call · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 625 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded, then brought before Petersen Sahib» 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/625-pg236-part26/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t8:1 # text = bet you can't guess who called him a young jungle-cock? 1 bet bet VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bet** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **guess** | can | you | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **call** | past | | | him *= he* | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Machua Appa ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t8:o1:1 # text = Machua Appa 1 Machua Machua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Appa Appa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Toomai ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t8:o2:1 # text = Toomai 1 Toomai Toomai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Petersen Sahib ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t8:o3:1 # text = Petersen Sahib 1 Petersen Petersen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Sahib Sahib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Big Toomai ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t8:o4:1 # text = Big Toomai 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Toomai Toomai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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