Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

yo, what was Darzee doing all morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do

This is test 6 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 Darzee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Darzee	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Darzee	cop
5	Darzee	darzee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Darzee	csubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Darzee	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						darzee property	tree rules
2	do	gerund					morning		vn act-114-1 «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

Singing loud about Nag dying, then going to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 going	csubj
2	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Singing	advmod
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 dying	mark
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dying	nsubj
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Singing	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	gerund	Nag			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go	gerund	Singing	then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	Singing not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Singing loud about the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Singing	advmod
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 snake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						about the snake; loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about snake=Location

Option 3

Singing loud about Nag dying, all over the garden tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Singing	advmod
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 dying	mark
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dying	nsubj
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Singing	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
7	all	all	ADV	_	11 tree	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund				the garden tree		loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Location
2	die	gerund	Nag						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Singing loud about Nag dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dying	csubj
2	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Singing	advmod
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 Nag	case
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						about Nag; loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about nag=Location
2	die	gerund	Singing						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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