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title: mate, did the bullocks like good bedding or nah? — The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servant… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate, did the bullocks like good bedding or nah? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

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mate, did the bullocks like good bedding or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bullocks

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» 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/630-pg236-part31/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t4:1
# text = mate, did the bullocks like good bedding or nah?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | mate | the bullocks |  |  |  | like good bedding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, they hate mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = nah, they hate mud
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | they | mud |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, they said it's better to lie in the mud than be disturbed on good bedding

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = nah, they said it's better to lie in the mud than be disturbed on good bedding
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the mud |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location |
| 4 | **disturb** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | good bedding |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, they said good bedding is warmer, so they lie down in the straw every night

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = yeah, they said good bedding is warmer, so they lie down in the straw every night
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | good bedding |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | present | they |  |  | the straw | night | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in straw=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, they like good bedding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = yeah, they like good bedding
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | they | good bedding |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bedding=Theme |

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