Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…
deadass, was brer coon walkin' with brer possum?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass, brer coon · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: brer coon
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | deadass | deadass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coon | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 deadass | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coon | cop |
| 4 | brer | br | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 coon | amod |
| 5 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | walkin | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 coon | acl |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 walkin | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 possum | case |
| 9 | brer | br | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 possum | amod |
| 10 | possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walkin | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 coon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | deadass | brer coon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | brer coon not said here | with brer possum | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
yeah, brer coon was walkin' fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 walkin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 walkin | punct |
| 3 | brer | br | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 coon | amod |
| 4 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walkin | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walkin | aux |
| 6 | walkin | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 walkin | punct |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 walkin | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | brer coon | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
no, brer coon ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | brer | brer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coon | compound |
| 4 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | brer coon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, brer coon was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 coon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | brer | br | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 coon | amod |
| 4 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | brer coon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
no, he wasn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 was | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | he | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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