Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds…

what's the deal with the kites, are they, like, scary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 612 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 13: Mowgli herds the buffaloes and hears that Shere Khan is back» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 scary	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 kites	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kites	det
7	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scary	cop
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scary	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scary	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 scary	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the kites						tree rules
2	is	present						scary 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 · ← Mova's choice

they swoop down super fast if something dies and then follow each other around the carcass

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swoop	nsubj
2	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 swoop	advmod
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 swoop	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dies	mark
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 dies	nsubj
8	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swoop	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 follow	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 follow	advmod
11	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swoop	conj
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 follow	obj
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	around	around	ADP	_	16 carcass	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 carcass	det
16	carcass	carcass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	present	they				down, fast property	tree rules
2	die a condition, not said to happen	present	something					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	follow	present	they not said here	each	the carcass	then		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme around carcass=Trajectory

Option 2

they're not scary, they just circle up high and swoop down when any animal dies out there

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scary	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scary	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 scary	advmod
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 circle	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 circle	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 circle	advmod
8	circle	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scary	parataxis
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 circle	compound:prt
10	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 circle	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swoop	cc
12	swoop	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scary	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 swoop	compound:prt
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 dies	mark
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 animal	det
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dies	nsubj
17	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 swoop	advcl
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 dies	advmod
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 dies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	they		scary property	tree rules
2	circle up	present	they		high property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	swoop down	infinitive	they not said here			tree rules
4	die out	present	any animal	there	out property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

they swoop fast when something's dead, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swoop	nsubj
2	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 swoop	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dead	advmod
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 dead	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swoop	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 swoop	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 swoop	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	present	they					fast property	tree rules
2	is	present	something					dead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they swoop down super fast if something dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swoop	nsubj
2	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 swoop	advmod
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 swoop	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dies	mark
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 dies	nsubj
8	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swoop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	present	they					down, fast property	tree rules
2	die a condition, not said to happen	present	something						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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