Test 5 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Dude, how did Rikki get in that hole, was it massive?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rikki, Dude · What happens: get, be · To what, where: hole

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 massive	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 massive	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 massive	nsubj
13	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 massive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Rikki			that hole			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Dude					massive 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

He held on tight with his claws and went down the hole backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 held	compound:prt
4	tight	tight	ADV	_	2 held	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 claws	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 claws	nmod:poss
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 held	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	9 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	past	He					with his claws; tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past	He not said here	the hole				backwards property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hole=Extent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He held on tight and went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tight	case
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	He			tight			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location
2	go down	past	He not said here					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

He wriggled through the gap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wriggled	nsubj
2	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 gap	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gap	det
5	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wriggled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wriggle	past	He			the gap			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, it was massive, and he held on tight going all the way down

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 massive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 massive	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 massive	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	cop
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	conj
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 going	amod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 held	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 way	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	obl:unmarked
16	down	down	ADV	_	12 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		massive property	tree rules
2	hold	past	he			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	gerund	he not said here	all way	down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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