Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

why'd Darzee not wanna squash the eggs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Darzee · What happens: not squash · To what, where: eggs

This is test 5 · ★ 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	6 squash	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	3 Darzee	punct
3	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 squash	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 squash	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 squash	dep
6	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 squash	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 squash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not squash	infinitive	Darzee	the eggs					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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

Cause his babies come from eggs just like these, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 come	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 babies	nmod:poss
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	advcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 these	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 these	case
9	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	his babies			eggs		like these	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from egg=Initial_Location
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Cause his kids hatch from eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kids	compound
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 kids	nmod:poss
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	nsubj
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	hatch	present	his Cause kids					from eggs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient

Option 3

Cause eggs are his babies, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eggs	compound
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 babies	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 babies	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 babies	nmod:poss
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 babies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cause eggs	his babies and bro					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause his babies come from eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 babies	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 babies	nmod:poss
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	his babies			eggs			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from egg=Initial_Location

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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