Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…
Was Rikki like, bigging himself up after?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rikki · What happens: be, big up · To what, where: Rikki
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | 2 Rikki | cop |
| 2 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bigging | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 bigging | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bigging | punct |
| 5 | bigging | big | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 bigging | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 bigging | compound:prt |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 bigging | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bigging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rikki | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | big up | gerund | Rikki | Rikki | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he yelled "I did it!" over and over across the whole garden
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 yelled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yelled | nsubj |
| 4 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yelled | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 yelled | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 over | cc |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 over | conj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garden | amod |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | he | the whole garden | over property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | I | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yeah, he sang a little tune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tune | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tune | amod |
| 7 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | he | a little tune | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he shouted "I killed them both!" and strutted round the veranda
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 shouted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | nsubj |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouted | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | obj |
| 9 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 killed | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strutted | cc |
| 13 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shouted | conj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 veranda | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 veranda | det |
| 16 | veranda | veranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strutted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | I | them = they | both property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | strut | participle | he not said here | the veranda | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round veranda=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he yelled "I did it!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 yelled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yelled | nsubj |
| 4 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yelled | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | I | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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