Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

wait who got the nastiest hit, like the one that knocked em flat

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: wait, get, knock · To what, where: nastiest hit

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 609 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped» of the books 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hit	det
5	nastiest	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 hit	amod
6	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knocked	nsubj
12	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
13	em	em	ADV	_	12 knocked	advmod
14	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	get	past		the nastiest hit	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hit=Stimulus
3	knock	past	the one		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

Kaa's bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bite	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kaa	case
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite		Kaa						nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The big hit Baloo gave when he hugged them all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hit	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hit	amod
3	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hit	appos
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hugged	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hugged	nsubj
8	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hugged	obj
10	all	all	ADV	_	8 hugged	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 hugged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the big hit						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	hug	past	hit	them = they				all property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kaa's first strike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strike	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kaa	case
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 strike	amod
4	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike		Kaa						nom strike «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Baloo's big swing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swing	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Baloo	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swing	amod
4	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing		Baloo						nom swing «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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