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title: was Nag gonna eat the kid first? — The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: was Nag gonna eat the kid first? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 622 «The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhears the cobras' plot and waits to strike» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

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was Nag gonna eat the kid first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Nag · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** kid

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 622 «The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhears the cobras' plot and waits to strike» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/622-pg236-part23/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t3:1
# text = was Nag gonna eat the kid first?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Nag	nag	X	GW	_	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive | Nag | the kid |  |  |  | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, the kid first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the kid first
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Nah, the big man first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, the big man first
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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