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

Yo, why'd the girls laugh so hard at the rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: laugh

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 laugh	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girls	det
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laugh	nsubj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 laugh	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 rabbit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rabbit	det
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the girls					at the rabbit; hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

He kept teasing the old fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fox	amod
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He						tree rules
2	tease	gerund	He not said here	the old fox					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient

Option 2

He was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					rude property	tree rules

Option 3

He sang loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sang	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	He					loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was bragging about the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bragging	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bragging	aux
3	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 fox	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bragging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	past · progressive	He					about the fox	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fox=Topic

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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