Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Like, what was the rabbit picking out of his hair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: be, pick out · To what, where: rabbit, hair

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	6 rabbit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 rabbit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rabbit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rabbit	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hair	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hair	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rabbit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rabbit					tree rules
2	pick out	gerund	the rabbit not said here	rabbit's hair					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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

Mud from the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 creek	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creek	det
4	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mud	nmod

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

Option 2

Leaves and sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sticks	cc
3	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leaves	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tar from the doll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 doll	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doll	det
4	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tar	nmod

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

Option 4

Burrs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burrs	burr	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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