Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…
is judge bear gonna save brer rabbit for sure?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, save · To what, where: judge bear, brer rabbit
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bear | cop |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | compound |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | csubj |
| 4 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 save | dep |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | brer | brer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rabbit | compound |
| 7 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sure | case |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 save | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | judge bear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save | imperative | you not said here | brer rabbit | for sure | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme for sure=Source |
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 · ✓ the right answer
nah, nobody knows for sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 knows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sure | case |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | nobody | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
yes, he surely does now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 does | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 does | nsubj |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 does | advmod |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 does | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | he | now | surely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he's coming soon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 coming | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 coming | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | he | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
nah, nobody knows for sure and it's up in the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 knows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sure | case |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knows | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 up | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 up | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 up | cop |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 knows | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 up | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | nobody | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | the air | up property | tree rules |
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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