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title: Fam, what did the camel say was keeping him up? — Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, what did the camel say was keeping him up? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 10 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

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Fam, what did the camel say was keeping him up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** do, say, keep up · **To what, where:** camel, Fam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» 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/631-pg236-part32/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t10:1
# text = Fam, what did the camel say was keeping him up?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fam | the camel |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fam |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep up** | past · progressive |  | Fam |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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bad dreams at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t10:o1:1
# text = bad dreams at night
1	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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strange calls outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t10:o2:1
# text = strange calls outside
1	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bad dreams at night from the wild horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t10:o3:1
# text = bad dreams at night from the wild horses
1	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the terrible noise of the bullocks in the yard at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t10:o4:1
# text = the terrible noise of the bullocks in the yard at night
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **noise** |  | the bullocks in the yard |  |  |  | at night |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent at=obl |

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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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