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Test 5 · ★ · Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they…

In The Jungle Book Kaa hypnotises Mowgli with spinning eyes. What is the real truth?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 321 «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» 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 hypnotises Mowgli with spinning 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	6 hypnotises	obl
5	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hypnotises	nsubj
6	hypnotises	hypnotis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hypnotises	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 eyes	amod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hypnotises	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hypnotises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotis	present	Kaa	Mowgli		the Jungle Book		with spinning eyes	tree rules
2	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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 the real truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 truth	amod
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real truth						tree rules

The options

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

Real snakes cannot hypnotise; they just stare because they have no eyelids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snakes	amod
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hypnotise	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hypnotise	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hypnotise	advmod
5	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 stare	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stare	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 stare	advmod
9	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hypnotise	conj
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stare	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 eyelids	det
14	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hypnotise	can	Real snakes						tree rules
2	stare	present	snakes = snake						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	snakes = snake	no eyelids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient

Option 2

Snakes hypnotise by humming a song

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	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 humming	mark
4	humming	hum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hypnotise	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 humming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	present	Snakes						tree rules
2	hum	gerund	Snakes not said here	a song					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

Option 3

Pythons really can hypnotise children by staring, but only for a few minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 hypnotise	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	aux
4	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 staring	mark
7	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hypnotise	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 minutes	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 minutes	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	14 minutes	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 minutes	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 minutes	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 minutes	amod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	can	Pythons	children					tree rules
2	stare	gerund	Pythons not said here				minute		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only old pythons can do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 pythons	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pythons	amod
3	pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj

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

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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