Test 9 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

sus, what did Brer Fox send by Mr. Mink?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: fox · To what, where: sus

This is test 9 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Fox	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Fox	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Fox	aux
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	nsubj
6	Fox	fox	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sus	conj
7	send	send	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Mink	case
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mink	nmod:desc
10	Mink	Mink	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fox	past · do-support	Brer	sus				by Mink Mr.	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer send=Result

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 letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a note saying he was ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 note	acl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a note not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					ill property	tree rules

Option 3

a pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

an excuse that he was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 excuse	det
2	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	nsubj
3	that	that	ADP	_	4 he	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 excuse	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sick	cop
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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