Exam question 1 · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

Which character is described as having been "rake[d] over de coals" by Brer Bear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brer Bear · What happens: describe, rake, be · To what, where: character, d

This is exam question 1 of lesson 567 «Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, part 3: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of a dinner» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	15 coals	case
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 coals	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 coals	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 rake	punct
9	rake	rake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 coals	compound
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 d	punct
11	d	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rake	obj
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 d	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 coals	case
14	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coals	amod
15	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 described	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 coals	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 Bear	case
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Bear	compound
19	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	Brer Bear	which character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	rake in a quote	infinitive		d		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent d=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	gerund · perfect			as rake de coals	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 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Brer Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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

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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