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title: No way, the ground at the top looked like what? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: No way, the ground at the top looked like what? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 627 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai rides Kala Nag to the secret elephant gathering» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

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No way, the ground at the top looked like what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ground · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 627 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai rides Kala Nag to the secret elephant gathering» 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/627-pg236-part28/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:627-pg236-part28:t13:1
# text = No way, the ground at the top looked like what?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the ground at the top | no way |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Soft and dusty, like sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:627-pg236-part28:t13:o1:1
# text = Soft and dusty, like sand
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hard and trampled, like brick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:627-pg236-part28:t13:o2:1
# text = Hard and trampled, like brick
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trample** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hard and trampled down, flat and smooth, like the floor of an old stone temple somewhere

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:627-pg236-part28:t13:o3:1
# text = Hard and trampled down, flat and smooth, like the floor of an old stone temple somewhere
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trample down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rough and bumpy, like stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:627-pg236-part28:t13:o4:1
# text = Rough and bumpy, like stone
1	Rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stone	stone	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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