Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…
Dude, what did the rabbit yell as he peaced out?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, peace out · To what, where: rabbit yell
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yell | det |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yell | compound |
| 7 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 peaced | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 peaced | nsubj |
| 10 | peaced | peace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 peaced | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | the rabbit yell | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | peace out | past | Dude | tree rules |
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
Ha, I'm outta here fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 7 fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 outta | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 outta | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 outta | cop |
| 5 | outta | outta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fox | compound |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 outta | advmod |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | outta | here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Peace out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Peace | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bred and raised in a briar-patch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 raised | cc |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Bred | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 patch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 patch | det |
| 6 | briar | briar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 patch | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 briar | punct |
| 8 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bred | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | participle | a briar patch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Bred and born in a brier-patch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 born | cc |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Bred | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 patch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 patch | det |
| 6 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 patch | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 brier | punct |
| 8 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bred | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | participle | a brier patch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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