Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

On what grounds did Darzee initially hesitate to destroy the eggs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grounds · What happens: hesitate, destroy · To what, where: eggs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 622 «The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhears the cobras' plot and waits to strike» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 hesitate	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Darzee	aux
5	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grounds	appos
6	initially	initially	ADV	_	7 hesitate	advmod
7	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 destroy	mark
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hesitate	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eggs	det
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 destroy	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hesitate	present	grounds					initially property	tree rules
2	destroy	to-infinitive	grounds not said here	the eggs					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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 · ✓ the right answer

He recognised they resembled his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recognised	nsubj
2	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 resembled	nsubj
4	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognised	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 resembled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	resemble	past	they	his own					tree rules

Option 2

He recognised they resembled his own, so he hesitated long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recognised	nsubj
2	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 resembled	nsubj
4	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognised	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 resembled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hesitated	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 hesitated	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hesitated	nsubj
10	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognised	conj
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hesitated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	He			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	resemble	past	they	his own		tree rules
3	hesitate	past	he		long property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He noticed they were like his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 his	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 his	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 his	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 noticed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	He						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	they					like his = he	tree rules

Option 4

He thought they were his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 own	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 own	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					own property	tree rules

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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