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title: bruv, that mule just kept on askin', yeah? — Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33:… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv, that mule just kept on askin', yeah? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 632 «Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question orders before the big parade» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question…

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bruv, that mule just kept on askin', yeah?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 632 «Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question orders before the big parade» 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/632-pg236-part33/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:t2:1
# text = bruv, that mule just kept on askin', yeah?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	mule	mule	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	askin	askin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PART	POS	_	8	dep	_	_
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · passive |  | bruv |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute |

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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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askin' about the lines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:t2:o1:1
# text = askin' about the lines
1	askin	askin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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asking why they fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:t2:o2:1
# text = asking why they fight
1	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fight** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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walkin' back to camp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:t2:o3:1
# text = walkin' back to camp
1	walkin	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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askin' too much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:632-pg236-part33:t2:o4:1
# text = askin' too much
1	askin	askin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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