Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

Bruh, who was doing all the trash-talking in that tale?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, talk · To what, where: tale

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 doing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 tale	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
8	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talking	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 trash	punct
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 tale	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive		all tale					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Fox, sassing the rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sassing	punct
4	sassing	sass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Fox	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sassing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sass	gerund	Brer Fox not said here	the rabbit					tree rules

Option 2

Brer Fox, sassing the rabbit the whole time before he got tricked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sassing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sassing	punct
4	sassing	sass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sassing	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sassing	obl:unmarked
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 tricked	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tricked	nsubj:pass
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tricked	aux:pass
13	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sassing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sass	gerund	Brer Fox	the rabbit			time		tree rules
2	trick	past · passive		Fox					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The little boy, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 boy	advmod

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

Option 4

Brer Bear, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	1 Brer	advmod

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

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