Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Wait, what's a stir'p again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: stir'p

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stir'p	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 stir'p	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stir'p	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stir'p	det
6	stir'p	stir'p	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				again		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a stir'p					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 · ← Mova's choice

A rope that holds the saddle on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 holds	nsubj
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rope	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	4 holds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	present	a rope	the saddle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme

Option 2

A strap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 strap	det
2	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The loop where the rider's foot goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loop	det
2	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 goes	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rider	det
5	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 foot	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 rider	case
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loop	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the rider's foot						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The hook where the bridle hangs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hook	det
2	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 hangs	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridle	det
5	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hangs	nsubj
6	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hook	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	the bridle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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