Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

wait, did Mowgli say he kills anything?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mowgli · What happens: wait, say, kill · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kills	nsubj
7	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 kills	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Mowgli		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill	present	Mowgli	anything	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he kills all the frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kills	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 frogs	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frogs	det
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	he	all frogs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he is too little to kill, he just said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 little	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 little	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 little	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 little	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	little property	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he is too weak to hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 weak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weak	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					weak property	tree rules
2	hunt	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he is too little to kill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 little	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 little	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 little	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 little	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					little property	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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