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title: so where are the snake eggs chilling? — The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: so where are the snake eggs chilling? Test 4 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi, part 23: Rikki overhear…

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so where are the snake eggs chilling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snake eggs · **What happens:** be, chill

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t4:1
# text = so where are the snake eggs chilling?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill** | gerund | the snake eggs |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Under the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t4:o1:1
# text = Under the bed
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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In the melon bed, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t4:o2:1
# text = In the melon bed, bruv
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In the melon bed, round the back, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t4:o3:1
# text = In the melon bed, round the back, bruv
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	round	round	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | imperative | you *not said here* | the back and bruv |  | the melon bed |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Under the melon, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:622-pg236-part23:t4:o4:1
# text = Under the melon, bro
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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