Exam question 3 · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…
What item is requested by Brer Rabbit as a flavouring for the chicken dinner?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer Rabbit · What happens: request · To what, where: item
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 requested | obj |
| 2 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 requested | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 requested | aux:pass |
| 4 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Rabbit | case |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | compound |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 requested | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 flavouring | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flavouring | det |
| 10 | flavouring | flavouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 requested | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dinner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dinner | det |
| 13 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dinner | compound |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flavouring | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 requested | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | present · passive | Brer Rabbit | item | as a flavouring for the chicken dinner | 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 · ✓ the right answer
calamus root
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calamus | calamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 root | compound |
| 2 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a little calamus root to season the chicken well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 root | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 root | amod |
| 3 | calamus | calamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 root | compound |
| 4 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 season | mark |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 root | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chicken | det |
| 8 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 season | conj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 chicken | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
wild ginger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ginger | amod |
| 2 | ginger | ginger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/567-pg2306-part3/e3/