Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Wait, why did the rabbit beg so hard not to get chucked in the patch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, not chuck · To what, where: rabbit beg, patch

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chucked	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 chucked	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chucked	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beg	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beg	compound
7	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 did	advmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 chucked	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 chucked	mark
12	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 chucked	aux:pass
13	chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 patch	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 patch	det
16	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chucked	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the rabbit beg		hard property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Eventuality
3	not chuck	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here		the patch		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: in patch=Destination

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

Cause it's scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scary	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scary	cop
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	it					scary property	tree rules

Option 2

Cause it was too far off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 far	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 far	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 far	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	off	off	ADV	_	5 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					far, off property	tree rules

Option 3

Cause he was super hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 hungry	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					hungry, super property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he was lowkey scared of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
4	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of it; lowkey, scared property	tree rules

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