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title: Lol, what got smeared on Toomai's forehead? — Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what got smeared on Toomai's forehead? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

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Lol, what got smeared on Toomai's forehead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** smear · **To what, where:** forehead

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t6:1
# text = Lol, what got smeared on Toomai's forehead?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	smeared	smear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smear** | past · passive |  |  |  | Toomai's forehead |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on forehead=Destination |

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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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red mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t6:o1:1
# text = red mud
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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turmeric and oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t6:o2:1
# text = turmeric and oil
1	turmeric	turmeric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fresh blood of a jungle-cock smeared on his brow by Machua

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t6:o3:1
# text = fresh blood of a jungle-cock smeared on his brow by Machua
1	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	smeared	smear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smear** | participle |  | a jungle cock *not said here* |  | his brow |  | by Machua | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on brow=Destination |

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

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jungle-cock blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t6:o4:1
# text = jungle-cock blood
1	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	blood	blood	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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