Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Like, why was Uncle Remus laughing to himself at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: laugh · To what, where: Uncle, end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 laughing	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughing	aux
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 laughing	nsubj
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 laughing	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 laughing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	Uncle		Uncle		at the end		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was singing about Molly Har'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 singing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Molly	case
5	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obl
6	Har	Har	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Molly	flat
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	He					about Molly	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about molly=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was reading a book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reading	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reading	aux
3	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · progressive	He	a book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 3

He was thinking of Molly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Molly	case
5	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	He					of Molly	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was remembering a funny old story about Brer Fox and the tar baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembering	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembering	aux
3	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remembering	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 Fox	case
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fox	compound
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 baby	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
13	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 baby	compound
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past · progressive	He	a funny old story and the tar baby				about Brer Fox	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme

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