Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Wait, why was Darzee's wife acting dodgy with her wing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: wait, act

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 acting	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 acting	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 acting	aux
5	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Darzee	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acting	nsubj
8	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
9	dodgy	dodgy	ADV	_	8 acting	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 wing	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wing	nmod:poss
12	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	act	past · progressive	Darzee's wife					with wife's wing; dodgy property	vn act-114-1-1 «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

to get Nagaina chasing her away from the eggs and the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 get	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chasing	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 chasing	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chasing	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nest	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eggs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		Nagaina					tree rules
2	chase away	gerund	Nagaina not said here	Nagaina		the eggs and the nest		away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from egg=Trajectory

Option 2

to draw the snake away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 draw	mark
2	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draw	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 draw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw away	to-infinitive		the snake				away property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to get Nagaina chasing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 get	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		Nagaina					tree rules
2	chase	gerund	Nagaina not said here	Nagaina					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

to make the snake lose track

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lose	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the snake					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snake=Product
2	lose	present		track					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Eventuality

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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