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

Bro, where did the rabbit sit after he got out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, sit, get out · To what, where: rabbit

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 got	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the rabbit	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality
2	sit	present	Bro		tree rules
3	get out	past	Bro		vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

On a chinkapin log way up the hill, chillin' like nothing happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 chinkapin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chinkapin	det
3	chinkapin	chinkapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 log	obl
4	log	log	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 log	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 log	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chillin	punct
10	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hill	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 chillin	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 happened	mark
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 happened	nsubj
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 log	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	log	imperative	you not said here	way		a chinkapin		up the hill	vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Location
2	happen	past	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

On a chinkapin log up the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 chinkapin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chinkapin	det
3	chinkapin	chinkapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 log	obl
4	log	log	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 log	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 log	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	log up	imperative	you not said here	the hill		a chinkapin			vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sitting on a big chinkapin log right up the hill by the old barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 log	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 log	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 log	amod
5	chinkapin	chinkapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 log	compound
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 hill	advmod
8	up	up	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 barn	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 barn	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 barn	amod
14	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				a big chinkapin log		up the hill; by the old barn	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location

Option 4

In a hole by the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 hole	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hole	det
3	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 creek	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 creek	det
6	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hole	nmod

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

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