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title: Arre, which elephant was Toomai riding? — Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arre, which elephant was Toomai riding? Test 3 · ★ 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 e
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# Test 3 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

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Arre, which elephant was Toomai riding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** elephant · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Toomai riding

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t3:1
# text = Arre, which elephant was Toomai riding?
1	Arre	Arre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which elephant | Toomai riding |  |  |  |  | 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}

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Kala Nag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t3:o1:1
# text = Kala Nag
1	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Nag	Nag	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 big tusker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t3:o2:1
# text = the big tusker
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tusker	tusker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sundar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t3:o3:1
# text = Sundar
1	Sundar	Sundar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the leader of the herd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t3:o4:1
# text = the leader of the herd
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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