Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…
yo, what's a tar baby even made of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: tar baby
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 baby | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 baby | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 baby | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 6 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 baby | compound |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 baby | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 made | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tar baby | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | a tar baby not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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
tar, turkentime, and a little bit of molasses too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turkentime | punct |
| 3 | turkentime | turkentime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tar | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bit | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bit | amod |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tar | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 molasses | case |
| 10 | molasses | molass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bit | nmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 bit | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
tar and turkentime mixed up with some lard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turkentime | cc |
| 3 | turkentime | turkentime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tar | conj |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 tar | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 mixed | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lard | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 lard | det |
| 8 | lard | lard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | participle | tar and turkentime not said here | with some lard | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with lard=Co-Patient |
Option 3
tar and cornmeal flour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flour | cc |
| 3 | cornmeal | cornmeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flour | compound |
| 4 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
tar and turkentime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turkentime | cc |
| 3 | turkentime | turkentime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tar | conj |
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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