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title: Lol, who got scared of their own son? — Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, who got scared of their own son? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 14 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

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Lol, who got scared of their own son?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» 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/628-pg236-part29/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t14:1
# text = Lol, who got scared of their own son?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Machua Appa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t14:o1:1
# text = Machua Appa
1	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the old driver Machua Appa, who feared the boy's dancing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t14:o2:1
# text = the old driver Machua Appa, who feared the boy's dancing
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | the old driver | the boy's dancing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dance** |  | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Petersen Sahib

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t14:o3:1
# text = Petersen Sahib
1	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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

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Big Toomai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t14:o4:1
# text = Big Toomai
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	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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