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Test 1 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

In The Jungle Book Kaa hypnotises Mowgli with spinning eyes. What would you fix?

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

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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 would you fix?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fix	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fix	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fix	nsubj
4	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	would	you						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

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

Snakes cannot hypnotise; they have no eyelids, so they stare

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	_	7 have	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 eyelids	det
9	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stare	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 stare	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stare	nsubj
13	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	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	stare	present	Snakes = snake						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only cobras can hypnotise people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cobras	advmod
2	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	aux
4	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	obj

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

Option 3

Right, all pythons hypnotise their prey with their eyes before they strike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 hypnotise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 pythons	det
4	pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hypnotise	nsubj
5	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prey	nmod:poss
7	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hypnotise	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hypnotise	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 strike	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strike	nsubj
13	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hypnotise	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotise	present	all pythons	pythons's prey				with pythons's eyes	tree rules
2	strike	present	pythons = python						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Snakes close their eyes to hypnotise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 close	nsubj
2	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 close	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hypnotise	mark
6	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 close	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	Snakes	Snakes's eyes					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	hypnotise	to-infinitive	Snakes not said here						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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