Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

no cap the monkeys were lowkey scared of Kaa, why tho

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkeys	det
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cap	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Kaa	case
9	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 why	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 scared	parataxis
12	tho	tho	ADV	_	11 why	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no cap and the monkeys					of Kaa; lowkey, scared property	tree rules

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

cause he could hiss one word that froze every monkey in the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiss	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hiss	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hiss	aux
4	hiss	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 word	nummod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiss	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 froze	nsubj
8	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 monkey	det
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 froze	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 froze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	could	cause	one word					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	freeze	past	one word	every monkey		the city			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient monkey=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause he was super strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cause not said here				strong, super property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cause he was really long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cause not said here				long property	tree rules

Option 4

cause he hissed a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hissed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hissed	nsubj
3	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	cause	a word					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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