Test 1 · ★★★ · Snakes and lizards

in jungle book kaa hypnotises mowgli with his eyes. can snakes actually do that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: snakes · What happens: hypnotis, do · To what, where: mowgli, book kaa, that

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Snakes and lizards» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 kaa	case
2	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 book	compound
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kaa	compound
4	kaa	kaa	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hypnotises	obl
5	hypnotises	hypnotis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mowgli	mowgli	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hypnotises	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mowgli	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hypnotises	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
13	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hypnotises	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 do	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hypnotises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotis	present		mowgli		book kaa		with his eyes	tree rules
2	do	can	snakes	that				actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

Option 1

Yes, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, all pythons can do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 pythons	det
4	pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	all pythons	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

No, because snakes have no eyes at all, they only feel and smell

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 have	mark
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 eyes	det
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 eyes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 feel	advmod
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smell	cc
15	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	snakes	no eyes	all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	feel	present	snakes = snake			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	smell	present	snakes not said here			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, snakes can't hypnotise; they just have no eyelids, so they never blink

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hypnotise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hypnotise	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hypnotise	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hypnotise	advmod
6	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hypnotise	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 eyelids	det
12	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blink	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 blink	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blink	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 blink	advmod
17	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hypnotise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not hypnotise	can	snakes		tree rules
2	have	present	snakes = snake	no eyelids	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
3	not blink	present	snakes = snake		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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