Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

lowkey, how'd brer fox act when he came out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: come out

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 act	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 act	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 act	aux
5	brer	br	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 act	amod
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 act	compound
7	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lowkey	appos
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	lowkey					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

all innocent, like a mockingbird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 innocent	det
2	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mockingbird	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 mockingbird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mockingbird	det
6	mockingbird	mockingbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 innocent	obl

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

Option 2

all sly and grinning, like a fox that just ate a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 grinning	nsubj
2	sly	sly	ADV	_	4 grinning	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grinning	cc
4	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fox	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 fox	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grinning	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ate	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 ate	advmod
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fox	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hen	det
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	all					sly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	a fox	a hen					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient

Option 3

all grinning, like a red fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 grinning	nsubj
2	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fox	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 fox	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fox	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fox	amod
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grinning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	all					like a red fox	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

all innocent, like a mockingbird singing in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 mockingbird	det
2	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mockingbird	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mockingbird	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 mockingbird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mockingbird	det
6	mockingbird	mockingbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mockingbird	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	all innocent mockingbird not said here			the sun			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

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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