Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Where'd the snake go with the egg, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: go

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 egg	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 egg	det
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 egg	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the snake					with the egg and mate	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with egg=Beneficiary

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

into the tall grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	4 grass	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

back up the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	4 path	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 back	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

down her rat-hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hole	nmod:poss
3	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 rat	punct
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 down	nsubj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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