Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

is Nagaina still hanging around?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nagaina · What happens: be, hang around · To what, where: Nagaina

This is test 13 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Nagaina	cop
2	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hanging	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 hanging	advmod
4	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 hanging	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hanging	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Nagaina					tree rules
2	hang around	gerund	Nagaina				still	around property	vn assuming_position-50 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, sulking by the water jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sulking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sulking	punct
3	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 jar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jar	compound
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	gerund						by the water jar	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, mourning on the rubbish heap by the garden wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mourning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mourning	punct
3	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 heap	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heap	det
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heap	compound
7	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mourning	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	compound
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mourning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	gerund				the rubbish heap		by the garden wall	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yeah, mourning on the rubbish heap, waiting for Rikki

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mourning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mourning	punct
3	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 heap	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heap	det
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heap	compound
7	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mourning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 mourning	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Rikki	case
11	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	gerund				the rubbish heap			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wait	gerund						for Rikki	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mourning on the rubbish heap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mourning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mourning	punct
3	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 heap	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heap	det
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heap	compound
7	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mourning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	gerund				the rubbish heap			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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