Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…
wait, where did the snakes chat about the plan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, snakes · What happens: wait, chat
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chat | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 chat | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chat | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snakes | det |
| 6 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chat | nsubj |
| 7 | chat | chat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | conj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 plan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plan | det |
| 10 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chat | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chat speech: other | past · do-support | the snakes | about the plan | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about plan=Topic |
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
In the garden, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bro | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 garden | punct |
| 5 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Outside the bathroom, in the moonlight, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 3 bathroom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bathroom | det |
| 3 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moonlight | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 moonlight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moonlight | det |
| 7 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathroom | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moonlight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Under the veranda, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 veranda | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 veranda | det |
| 3 | veranda | veranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innit | punct |
| 5 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 veranda | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Outside the bathroom, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 3 bathroom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bathroom | det |
| 3 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innit | punct |
| 5 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathroom | 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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