Test 14 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

So both cobras are gone, right, proper done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cobras · What happens: be, do

This is test 14 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cobras	det
3	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	10 done	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gone	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both cobras					gone property	tree rules
2	do	participle	both cobras not said here					properly property	vn act-114-1 «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

Nah, just Nagaina got away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
4	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	Nagaina					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Nag and Nagaina are dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Nagaina	cc
5	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nag	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nag and Nagaina					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, one is still alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 alive	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	one				still	alive property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, Nag is dead but Nagaina has escaped down her rat-hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 escaped	cc
7	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 escaped	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 escaped	aux
9	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 escaped	compound:prt
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hole	nmod:poss
12	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hole	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 rat	punct
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escaped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nag					dead property	tree rules
2	escape down	present · perfect	Nagaina	Nagaina's rat hole					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Initial_Location

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