Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Dude, what's the real reason the little boy's story-time ends?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: real reason

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reason	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reason	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reason	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 boy	case
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ends	compound
15	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reason	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dude	the real reason			time ends		tree rules

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

Mama's dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mama	Mama	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dinner	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mama	case
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

His daddy takes him fishing

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 daddy	nmod:poss
2	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	obj
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	His daddy	him = he					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme fishing=Destination

Option 3

The fox runs off now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 runs	compound:prt
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	present	the fox				now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His mama calls him to bed

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 mama	nmod:poss
2	mama	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calls	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	His mama	him = he	bed				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to bed=Recipient

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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