Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

lowkey, what did Mowgli say the snake was doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey, snake · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 610 «Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the monkeys freeze under the Hunger Dance» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 doing	aux
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	lowkey						tree rules
2	do	past · progressive	the snake						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Just making circles on the dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 making	advmod
2	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 making	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 dust	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dust	det
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		circles		the dust			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product

Option 2

Just drawing lines in dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 drawing	advmod
2	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drawing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 dust	case
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drawing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		lines		dust			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme in dust=Destination

Option 3

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Just sleeping by the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 sleeping	advmod
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund						by the wall	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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