Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

what did Chuchundra do when asked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chuchundra · What happens: do, ask

This is test 10 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Chuchundra	Chuchundra	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 asked	advmod
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 do	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Chuchundra						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	participle	Chuchundra not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	participle							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sat down and cried, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	sat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sat	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cried	cc
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Sat	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sat down	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Went off and hid, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Went	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hid	cc
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Went	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Went	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past							vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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