Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…
dude, who got the snake's head in the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: get · To what, where: head, end
This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | dude | the snake's head | in the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
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
Rikki-tikki, obvs, cause he bit the head off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obvs | punct |
| 5 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tikki | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cause | punct |
| 7 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bit | nsubj |
| 9 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 bit | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite off | past | Rikki tikki and obvs and cause | the head | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rikki-tikki, obvs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obvs | punct |
| 5 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tikki | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Rikki-tikki, obvs, after the big bang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obvs | punct |
| 5 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tikki | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bang | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 bang | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bang | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bang | amod |
| 10 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The mongoose, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mongoose | det |
| 2 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mongoose | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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