Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…
Dude, what's a blind bridle even?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: blind bridle
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bridle | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 bridle | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bridle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bridle | det |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bridle | amod |
| 7 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dude | appos |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 bridle | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dude | a blind bridle | 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 special bridle with leather blinders covering both eyes of the horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridle | det |
| 2 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bridle | amod |
| 3 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 blinders | case |
| 5 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blinders | compound |
| 6 | blinders | blinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bridle | nmod |
| 7 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 blinders | acl |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 eyes | det |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covering | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | leather blinders not said here | both eyes of the horse | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A bridle with no eyes holes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bridle | det |
| 2 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 holes | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 holes | compound |
| 6 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bridle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bridle with blinders on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bridle | det |
| 2 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 on | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 blinders | case |
| 4 | blinders | blinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bridle | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bridle that covers the horse's eyes completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bridle | det |
| 2 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 covers | nsubj |
| 4 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bridle | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covers | obj |
| 9 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 covers | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | a bridle | the horse's eyes | completely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |
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