Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

bro, how'd possum hype up his belly before the walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: possum · What happens: hype up · To what, where: belly

This is test 13 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hype	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hype	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hype	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 possum	punct
5	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hype	nsubj
6	hype	hype	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hype	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 belly	nmod:poss
9	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hype	obj
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 walk	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walk	det
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hype	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hype	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype up	infinitive	possum	possum's belly			before the walk	bro vocative	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

he got real full on persimmons and sweet potato pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 full	amod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 persimmons	case
6	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pie	cc
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pie	amod
9	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pie	compound
10	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persimmons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he			persimmons and sweet potato pie		full property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on persimmon=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he got full on persimmons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 persimmons	case
5	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					full property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

he got full on persimmons and then took a nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 persimmons	case
5	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 took	advmod
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nap	det
10	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					full property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	take	past	he not said here	a nap			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme

Option 4

he drank a jug of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 jug	det
4	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jug	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	he	a jug of water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Patient

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