Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

wait, so what'd he hit her with first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, hit · To what, where: her

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hit	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 hit	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 hit	obj
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hit	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hit	nsubj
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hit	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 hit	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	past	he	her = she					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient she=Result with first=Instrument

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

his knee, her big arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 knee	nmod:poss
2	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 arm	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arm	nmod:poss
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knee	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his fist, side of her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fist	nmod:poss
2	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 side	punct
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fist	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 side	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

his foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 foot	nmod:poss
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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