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title: Lol, what's Two Tails so scared of? — Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what's Two Tails so scared of? Test 4 · ★ 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 and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

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Lol, what's Two Tails so scared of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Two Tails

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t4:1
# text = Lol, what's Two Tails so scared of?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Two Tails |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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little barking dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t4:o1:1
# text = little barking dogs
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	barking	barking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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any small dog that barks very loudly at night and chases him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t4:o2:1
# text = any small dog that barks very loudly at night and chases him
1	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	barks	bark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | present | any small dog |  |  |  | night | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chase** | present | any small dog *not said here* | dog |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
little barking dogs running loose through the yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t4:o3:1
# text = little barking dogs running loose through the yard
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | little barking dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the yard; loose *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through yard=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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small wild foxes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t4:o4:1
# text = small wild foxes
1	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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