Exam question 4 · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

By what means did Rikki-tikki ultimately recover the final egg from the cobra?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, recover · To what, where: Rikki tikki, final egg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tikki	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Rikki	punct
7	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 recover	advmod
9	recover	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 egg	det
11	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 egg	amod
12	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recover	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 cobra	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cobra	det
15	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 egg	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	Rikki tikki		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tikki=Eventuality
3	recover	present	the final egg	from the cobra; ultimately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from cobra=Source

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

He took it while she turned away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 turned	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	turn away	past	she					away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He stole the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 egg	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	the egg					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He seized it while she was turned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 turned	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux:pass
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seized	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	He	it					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	turn	past · passive		she					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result

Option 4

He grabbed it fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grabbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	it				fast property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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