Test 6 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

no cap, where did Brer Rabbit go when he dipped out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: go, dip out

This is test 6 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 go	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brer	flat
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dipped	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dipped	nsubj
11	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 dipped	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Brer						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dip out	past	Brer						vn meander-47.7-1 «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

into the thick bushes beside the road, where Brer Fox could not see him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	4 bushes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bushes	det
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bushes	amod
4	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bushes	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 see	advmod
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 see	nsubj
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 road	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	Brer	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

into the bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	3 bushes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bushes	det
3	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	outside	outside	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

out the door and into the tall bushes near the garden fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	out	out	ADV	_	3 door	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bushes	cc
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 bushes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bushes	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bushes	amod
8	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 door	conj
9	near	near	ADP	_	12 fence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fence	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fence	compound
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bushes	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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