Test 4 · ★ · Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting: Kaa smashes the wall, and the…

yo, was Bagheera actually scared at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: be · To what, where: end

This is test 4 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
4	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bagheera				at the end	actually, 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was trembling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 trembling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trembling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembling	aux
5	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · progressive	he						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he was sweating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sweating	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sweating	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sweating	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sweating	aux
5	sweating	sweat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweat	past · progressive	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was trembling, after nearly walking down Kaa's throat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 trembling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trembling	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trembling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembling	aux
5	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walking	punct
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 walking	mark
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 walking	advmod
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 trembling	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 walking	compound:prt
11	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 throat	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Kaa	case
13	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · progressive	he						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk down	gerund	he not said here	Kaa's throat				nearly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throat=Trajectory

Option 4

Yeah, he was trembling all over because he had nearly walked straight down the throat of Kaa himself

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 trembling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trembling	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trembling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trembling	aux
5	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 trembling	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 walked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walked	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walked	aux
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod
12	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 trembling	advcl
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 throat	advmod
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 throat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 throat	det
16	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Kaa	case
18	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 throat	nmod
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 Kaa	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · progressive	he					over property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past · perfect	he			the throat of Kaa Kaa		nearly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down throat=Trajectory

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