Test 4 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Was Rikki-tikki sleeping on the job when he got back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rikki tikki, he · What happens: be, sleep, get back · To what, where: Rikki tikki, job

This is test 4 · ★ 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 tikki	cop
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tikki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tikki	punct
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tikki	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 job	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeping	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tikki	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		Rikki tikki		tree rules
2	sleep	gerund	Rikki tikki not said here		the job	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get back	past	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 went right after the snake into her hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	right	right	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 snake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hole	nmod:poss
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			snake's hole	after the snake	right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yeah, he was snoozing away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 snoozing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snoozing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snoozing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snoozing	aux
5	snoozing	snooze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 snoozing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snooze away	past · progressive	he					away property	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went after the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	after	after	ADP	_	7 snake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, he slept

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

#	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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