Test 3 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Was Nagaina proper livid when Rikki nicked her egg?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nagaina, Rikki · What happens: be, nick · To what, where: egg

This is test 3 · ★ 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	4 livid	cop
2	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 livid	nsubj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 livid	advmod
4	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 nicked	advmod
6	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nicked	nsubj
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 livid	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 egg	nmod:poss
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 livid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nagaina					livid, properly property	tree rules
2	nick	past	Rikki	Rikki's egg					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she went mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she was furious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 furious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 furious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	cop
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					furious property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she just shrugged and slid off down the path quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shrugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shrugged	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 shrugged	advmod
5	shrugged	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slid	cc
7	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shrugged	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 slid	compound:prt
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 path	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slid	obl
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 slid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrug	past	she						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slide off	past	she not said here			the path		quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory

Option 4

Yeah, she went totally mad and hissed at everyone in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hissed	cc
8	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 hissed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hiss	past	she not said here			everyone		in the garden	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at everyone=Location

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