Test 5 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

fr, what was on the table when Brer Rabbit walked in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, Brer Rabbit · What happens: be, walk in · To what, where: table

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 table	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 table	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 table	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 walked	mark
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rabbit	compound
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 table	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 walked	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr and the table			the table			tree rules
2	walk in	past	Brer Rabbit						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a pan and a wooden spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pan	det
2	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spoon	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spoon	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spoon	amod
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pan	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a dish-pan and a carving knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pan	det
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pan	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dish	punct
4	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knife	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
7	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knife	compound
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pan	conj

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

Option 4

a kettle and a bread board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 board	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 board	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 board	compound
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kettle	conj

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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