--- title: Bro, how long did the elephants keep stamping? — Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, how long did the elephants keep stamping? Test 2 · ★ 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 a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/628-pg236-part29/t2/) [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/) / [Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/628-pg236-part29/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t… Bro, how long did the elephants keep stamping? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elephants · **What happens:** do, keep, stamp This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t2:1 # text = Bro, how long did the elephants keep stamping? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 stamping stamp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | Bro *vocative*; long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | present | the elephants | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stamp** | gerund | the elephants *not said here* | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} from the first drum-beat until well after the moon had set ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t2:o1:1 # text = from the first drum-beat until well after the moon had set 1 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 4 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past · perfect · passive | the first drum beat *not said here* | the moon | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ### Option 2 {#o2} all morning ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t2:o2:1 # text = all morning 1 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} about two hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t2:o3:1 # text = about two hours 1 about about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} nearly three hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t2:o4:1 # text = nearly three hours 1 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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