Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…
Was Rikki knackered after the big fight?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rikki · What happens: be
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knackered | cop |
| 2 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knackered | nsubj |
| 3 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 fight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fight | amod |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knackered | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knackered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rikki | after the big fight | knacker property | 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 stayed up late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay up | past | he | late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he ate some bugs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 bugs | det |
| 6 | bugs | bug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | he | some bugs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient |
Option 3
Yeah, he slept till late and then strutted round the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 late | mark |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slept | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strutted | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 strutted | advmod |
| 9 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slept | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strutted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | he | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strut | participle | he not said here | the garden | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round garden=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he slept till late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 late | mark |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slept | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | he | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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