Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

so brer coon called possum a coward, straight up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coward · What happens: call, straight up · To what, where: brer coon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 568 «Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit gets stuck fast to the Tar-Baby» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
2	brer	br	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 coon	amod
3	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coward	det
7	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 straight	punct
9	straight	straight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 coward	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 straight	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive		brer coon					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	straight up	infinitive	a coward not said here						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

nope, he called him a cowerd and a liar too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cowerd	det
7	cowerd	cowerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 liar	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 liar	det
10	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cowerd	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	4 called	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	he		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he said cowerd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cowerd	cowerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	cowerd					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cowerd=Topic

Option 3

yeah, he said cowerd and then ran off laughin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cowerd	cowerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ran	advmod
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	laughin	laughin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 laughin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	cowerd					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cowerd=Topic
2	run off	past	he not said here	laughin			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme laughin=Trajectory

Option 4

yep, he said lazy dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	lazy dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

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