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Test 11 · ★★ · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…

In The Jungle Book the snake Kaa hypnotises Mowgli with swirling eyes. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake · What happens: hypnotis, swirl, be · To what, where: Mowgli, Jungle Book

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» of the biology 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.

The question

Sentence 1: In The Jungle Book the snake Kaa hypnotises Mowgli with swirling eyes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 Book	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Book	det
3	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Book	compound
4	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hypnotises	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hypnotises	nsubj
7	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 snake	appos
8	hypnotises	hypnotis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hypnotises	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
11	swirling	swirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hypnotises	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hypnotises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotis	present	the snake	Mowgli		the Jungle Book		with swirling eyes	tree rules
2	swirl	gerund							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Snakes cannot hypnotise; they just cannot blink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hypnotise	advmod
4	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 blink	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blink	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 blink	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 blink	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 blink	advmod
10	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hypnotise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hypnotise	can	Snakes						tree rules
2	not blink	can	Snakes = snake						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only big snakes can hypnotise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 snakes	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snakes	amod
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hypnotise	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hypnotise	aux
5	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	can	big snakes						tree rules

Option 3

Snakes hypnotise with their tongues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hypnotise	nsubj
2	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 tongues	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tongues	nmod:poss
5	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hypnotise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	present	Snakes					with Snakes's tongues	tree rules

Option 4

Real pythons hypnotise children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pythons	amod
2	pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hypnotise	nsubj
3	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hypnotise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	present	Real pythons	children					tree rules

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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