Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…
no cap, what'd brer rabbit say to her first?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: say · To what, where: first · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 'd | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 'd | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 6 | brer | br | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 rabbit | amod |
| 7 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 'd | obj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 first | nmod:poss |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 say | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | no cap | rabbit's first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to first=Recipient |
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
"Mawnin', Miss Tar-Baby, you lookin' fine today!"
The tree, 9 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Baby | punct |
| 2 | Mawnin | Mawnin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Baby | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 2 Mawnin | case |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Baby | compound |
| 5 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Baby | punct |
| 7 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Baby | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lookin | nsubj |
| 10 | lookin | lookin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Baby | parataxis |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 today | amod |
| 13 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lookin | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Baby | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Baby | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lookin in a quote | present | you | today | tree rules |
Option 2
"Good mornin', ma'am, how you doin'?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ma'am | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mornin | amod |
| 3 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ma'am | compound |
| 4 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 3 mornin | dep |
| 5 | ma'am | ma'am | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doin | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 doin | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 doin | nsubj |
| 9 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ma'am | appos |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 doin | punct |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 doin | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 doin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doin in a quote | you | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
"Mawnin'!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mawnin | punct |
| 2 | Mawnin | Mawnin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mawnin | punct |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mawnin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mawnin | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"Evenin'!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Evenin | punct |
| 2 | Evenin | Evenin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Evenin | punct |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Evenin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Evenin | punct |
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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