Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Yo, what did the Elephant do to the Crawfish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Elephant · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 569 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox into the brier-patch» 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 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Elephant	det
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Crawfish	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Crawfish	det
10	Crawfish	crawfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the Elephant					to the Crawfish	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Squished him flat with his foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squished	squish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squished	obj
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 Squished	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squish	participle		him = he				with his foot; flat property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with foot=Instrument

Option 2

Kicked him into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kicked	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		him = he				into the river result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into river=Result

Option 3

Sat on him real hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sat	obl
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sat	xcomp
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past						on him = he; real property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location

Option 4

Stepped on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stepped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	participle						on him = he	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory

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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