Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

What reason did Nagaina advance when she offered to depart if handed the egg?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, Nagaina · What happens: advance, offer, depart, hand · To what, where: egg

This is exam question 3 of lesson 623 «Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the cobra eggs, saves Teddy, and kills Nagaina» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 advance	obj
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advance	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advance	aux
4	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 advance	nsubj
5	advance	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 offered	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 offered	nsubj
8	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advance	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 depart	mark
10	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 offered	xcomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 handed	mark
12	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 depart	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 egg	det
14	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 handed	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 advance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	advance	past · do-support	reason		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer what=Patient
2	offer	past	Nagaina		tree rules
3	depart not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nagaina not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hand a condition, not said to happen	participle	Nagaina not said here	the egg	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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 · ✓ the right answer

She would go away and never return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 return	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 return	advmod
7	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	would	She					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	infinitive	She not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She would go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	would	She					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She would fly off and not return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fly	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 return	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 return	advmod
7	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	would	She						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	infinitive	She not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She would leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	She						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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