Test 9 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

Them ants came down to check, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ants · What happens: come down, check

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Them	them	DET	PronType=Dem	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 check	mark
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	them ants					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	them ants not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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

Nah, they came down to check on the eggs and the melons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eggs	det
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 melons	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 melons	det
13	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eggs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	they					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	they not said here			the eggs and the melons			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location

Option 2

Yeah, to check the eggs out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 check	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 check	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 check	mark
4	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eggs	det
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 check	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 check	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check out	to-infinitive		the eggs				out property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they came down to see if the snakes were really dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 dead	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snakes	det
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dead	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 dead	advmod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come down	past	they	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	they not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the snakes	dead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, to see if it was true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 true	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	it					true property	tree rules

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