Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…
Bruh, did the rabbit actually ride the fox like a pony?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: rabbit, fox
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 570 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer Fox to Miss Meadows's and hitches him to the rack» 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 | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 ride | advmod |
| 7 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ride | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 pony | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pony | det |
| 12 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ride | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ride | present | the fox | like a pony; actually property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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
Yep, all the way to Miss Meadows's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 way | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 way | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Meadows | case |
| 7 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Meadows | compound |
| 8 | Meadows | Meadows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 way | nmod |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Meadows | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nope, he walked the fox to the creek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 creek | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creek | det |
| 9 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | he | the fox | the creek | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fox=Theme to creek=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yep, he rode the fox to the creek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 rode | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 creek | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creek | det |
| 9 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | he | the fox | the creek | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fox=Theme to creek=Trajectory |
Option 4
Nope, just a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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