Test 11 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Darzee's proper dramatic, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: innit

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dramatic	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Darzee	case
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dramatic	amod
4	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dramatic	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dramatic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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

Nah, he sang a loud song at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he	a loud song			dawn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he sang a victory song early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	compound
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he	a victory song				early property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he sang a death song too soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	compound
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he	a death song				soon property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he sang a death song for Rikki-tikki far too soon and too loudly

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	compound
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 tikki	case
9	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tikki	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Rikki	punct
11	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 soon	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sang	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loudly	cc
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 loudly	advmod
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	14 soon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he	a death song				for Rikki tikki; soon property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for tikki=Beneficiary

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