Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Yo, how'd the rabbit get out after the fox threw him in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit, fox · What happens: get out, throw · To what, where: rabbit

This is test 4 · ★ 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 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 threw	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	12 threw	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	would	the rabbit					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	the fox	rabbit					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 bounced out like a cricket

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	2 bounced	nsubj
2	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 bounced	compound:prt
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cricket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cricket	det
6	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce out	past	He					like a cricket	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He crawled out real slow

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	2 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 crawled	compound:prt
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	amod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crawled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl out	past	He					slow property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He just hopped out

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 hopped	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 hopped	advmod
3	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 hopped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop out	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He ran off like a deer

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	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 deer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He					like a deer	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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