Test 4 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

lowkey, what did Brer Rabbit say he was full of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, Brer · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brer	flat
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 full	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 full	cop
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 full	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Brer	full property	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

way too many fleas to count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fleas	amod
4	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 way	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 way	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fleas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

mites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a whole swarm of hungry fleas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 swarm	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swarm	amod
3	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fleas	case
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fleas	amod
6	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swarm	nmod

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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