Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

ok real talk, who came over the wall and scared em all off

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ok real talk · What happens: come, scare off · To what, where: wall, em

This is test 3 · ★ 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scared	cc
11	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
12	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 scared	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 em	det
14	off	off	ADV	_	11 scared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	ok real talk			the wall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over wall=Initial_Location
2	scare off	past	ok real talk not said here	em = they				off property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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

Baloo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Bagheera the panther

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 panther	det
3	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bagheera	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kaa the big snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snake	amod
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kaa	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the huge python Kaa who came over the west wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 python	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 python	amod
3	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 python	appos
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Kaa	acl:relcl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
9	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	compound
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the huge python			the west wall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over wall=Initial_Location

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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