Test 14 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

fam, who was supposed to bring the dinner over?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: suppose, bring over · To what, where: fam, dinner

This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 supposed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 supposed	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 supposed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 supposed	aux:pass
5	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 supposed	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dinner	det
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	7 bring	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 supposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	past · passive		fam					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bring over	to-infinitive		the dinner					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

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

Mr. Mink, but he was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mink	nmod:desc
2	Mink	Mink	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sick	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 sick	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sick	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sick	cop
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Mink	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mink					sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Brer Rabbit, who promised to bring it but never came around at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 promised	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 promised	nsubj
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promised	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	conj
12	around	around	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Brer				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Brer not said here	it			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not come around	past	Brer not said here		all	around property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Brer Bear, but he forgot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	nsubj
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forgot	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 forgot	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forgot	nsubj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Brer						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Rabbit, but he never did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Brer	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	Brer	Brer not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Eventuality

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