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In The Jungle Book, Kaa the python hypnotises Mowgli with spiral eyes. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kaa · What happens: hypnotis, be · To what, where: Mowgli, Jungle Book

This is test 1 of lesson 246 «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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, Kaa the python hypnotises Mowgli with spiral 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	9 hypnotises	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Book	punct
6	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hypnotises	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 python	det
8	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Kaa	appos
9	hypnotises	hypnotis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hypnotises	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hypnotises	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hypnotises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotis	present	Kaa	Mowgli		the Jungle Book		with spiral eyes	tree rules

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

Pythons really hypnotise their prey with their stare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hypnotise	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 hypnotise	advmod
3	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 prey	nmod:poss
5	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hypnotise	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stare	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stare	nmod:poss
8	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hypnotise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	present	Pythons	Pythons's prey				with Pythons's stare	tree rules
2	stare		Pythons = python						nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← 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 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

Only very old snakes can hypnotise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 snakes	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snakes	amod
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hypnotise	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hypnotise	aux
6	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

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