Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Bruh, what did the fox say he'd do, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: do, say, like · To what, where: fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 real	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 like	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the fox	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	fox		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	infinitive			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Hang him from a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hang	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	him = he		a tree			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Roast him up good over a fire for a bobby-cue, no lie

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Roast	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Roast	compound:prt
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Roast	xcomp
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 cue	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cue	det
10	bobby	bobby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cue	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 bobby	punct
12	cue	cue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 lie	det
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cue	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast up	imperative	you not said here	him = he		a fire		for a bobby cue and no lie; good property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for cue=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Roast him up for a bobby-cue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Roast	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Roast	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 cue	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cue	det
6	bobby	bobby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cue	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bobby	punct
8	cue	cue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast up	imperative	you not said here	him = he				for a bobby cue	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for cue=Beneficiary

Option 4

Grill him on the fire rack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grill	grill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grill	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 rack	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rack	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rack	compound
6	rack	rack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grill	imperative	you not said here	him = he				on the fire rack	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient on rack=Instrument

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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