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title: Wait, why was Darzee's wife acting dodgy with her wing? — Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, why was Darzee's wife acting dodgy with her wing? Test 2 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…

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Wait, why was Darzee's wife acting dodgy with her wing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, wife · **What happens:** wait, act

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This is test 2 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/623-pg236-part24/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:623-pg236-part24:t2:1
# text = Wait, why was Darzee's wife acting dodgy with her wing?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	dodgy	dodgy	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **act** | past · progressive | Darzee's wife |  |  |  |  | with wife's wing; dodgy *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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to get Nagaina chasing her away from the eggs and the nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:623-pg236-part24:t2:o1:1
# text = to get Nagaina chasing her away from the eggs and the nest
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | Nagaina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chase away** | gerund | Nagaina *not said here* | Nagaina |  | the eggs and the nest |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from egg=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to draw the snake away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:623-pg236-part24:t2:o2:1
# text = to draw the snake away
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw away** | to-infinitive |  | the snake |  |  |  | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to get Nagaina chasing her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:623-pg236-part24:t2:o3:1
# text = to get Nagaina chasing her
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | Nagaina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chase** | gerund | Nagaina *not said here* | Nagaina |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to make the snake lose track

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:623-pg236-part24:t2:o4:1
# text = to make the snake lose track
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the snake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snake=Product |
| 2 | **lose** | present |  | track |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Eventuality |

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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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