Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd…

yo, did the buffs actually squash Shere Khan or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: buffs · What happens: do, squash · To what, where: Shere Khan

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 613 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 14: Mowgli's herd crushes Shere Khan in the ravine» 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	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 squash	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buffs	det
5	buffs	buff	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 squash	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 squash	advmod
7	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Khan	compound
9	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 squash	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 squash	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 squash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the buffs not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	squash	present	the buffs	Shere Khan				actually property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent khan=Patient

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, the herd squashed him real good in the ravine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 squashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squashed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herd	det
4	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squashed	nsubj
5	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squashed	obj
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 good	amod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squashed	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 ravine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ravine	det
11	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle	the herd	him = he		the ravine		good property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in ravine=Trajectory

Option 2

Nope, he slipped out the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 slipped	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	past	he	the back					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, totally flattened him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flattened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flattened	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 flattened	advmod
4	flattened	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flattened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	past		him = he				totally property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, but he limped off alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 limped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 limped	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 limped	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 limped	nsubj
5	limped	limp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 limped	compound:prt
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 limped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	limp off	past	he					alive property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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