Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

why did Rikki keep his jaws shut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rikki · What happens: keep · To what, where: jaws

This is test 11 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 jaws	nmod:poss
6	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Rikki	Rikki's jaws				shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme

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

He reckoned he'd get banged to death by the stick, innit

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 banged	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 banged	aux
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 banged	aux:pass
6	banged	bang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banged	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 stick	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banged	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bang	would · passive	the stick and innit	he		death			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to death=Trajectory

Option 2

He thought the snake would bite

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bite	would	the snake						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He reckoned he'd get banged to death

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 banged	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 banged	aux
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 banged	aux:pass
6	banged	bang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bang	would · passive		he		death			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to death=Trajectory

Option 4

He reckoned he'd get banged to death by the big man

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 banged	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 banged	aux
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 banged	aux:pass
6	banged	bang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banged	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 banged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bang	would · passive	the big man	he		death			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to death=Trajectory

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