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title: what's a keddah, though? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's a keddah, though? Test 9 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's a keddah, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** keddah

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t9:1
# text = what's a keddah, though?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	keddah	keddah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a keddah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a stockade for catching wild elephants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t9:o1:1
# text = a stockade for catching wild elephants
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stockade	stockade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | gerund | a stockade *not said here* | wild elephants |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a big hut where elephants are fed grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t9:o2:1
# text = a big hut where elephants are fed grain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present · passive |  | elephants |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient grain=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wooden corral for keeping tame horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t9:o3:1
# text = a wooden corral for keeping tame horses
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	corral	corral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund | a wooden corral *not said here* | tame horses |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wild camp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:625-pg236-part26:t9:o4:1
# text = a wild camp
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	camp	camp	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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