Test 10 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Did Nagaina give up quick or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nagaina · What happens: give up

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
2	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 give	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 quick	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support	Nagaina						vn resign-10.11-2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she chased him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase down	past	she	him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she chased him down the hole and kept fighting him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 chased	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chased	conj
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chase down	past	she	him = he	tree rules
2	keep	past	she not said here		tree rules
3	fight	gerund	she not said here	him = he	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

Nah, she didn't give up at all and chased him all over the garden

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 give	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 give	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chased	cc
11	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chased	obj
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 garden	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	past · do-support	she			all			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chase	past	she not said here	him = he		the garden			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme over garden=Trajectory

Option 4

Yeah, she ran away fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	she					away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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