Test 2 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

bro wait, why was Brer Fox all wrapped up in flannel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, wrap up · To what, where: Brer Fox, flannel

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	compound
2	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Fox	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 Fox	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Fox	cop
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fox	compound
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 wrapped	advmod
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Fox	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 wrapped	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 flannel	case
12	flannel	flannel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrapped	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Brer Fox					tree rules
2	wrap up	participle		Brer Fox not said here		flannel		all property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in flannel=Destination

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

he had a bad cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cold	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	amod
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a bad cold					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient

Option 2

he was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was faking being sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faking	aux
3	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	he						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	he not said here					sick property	tree rules

Option 4

he was sick in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sick	obl

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

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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