Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Y'all seen how the fox got tied up at the rack?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: see, tie up · To what, where: fox, rack

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Y'all	y'all	ADV	_	2 seen	advmod
2	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tied	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tied	aux:pass
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seen	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 tied	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 rack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rack	det
11	rack	rack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 seen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	participle						y'all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tie up	past · passive		the fox		the rack			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Yeah, the rabbit hitched him good and tight to the rack by the gate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hitched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hitched	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hitched	nsubj
5	hitched	hitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hitched	obj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hitched	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tight	cc
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 good	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 rack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rack	det
12	rack	rack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tight	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hitched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitch	past	the rabbit	him = he				by the gate; good property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Yep, the girls tied him tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	nsubj
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	obj
7	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the girls	him = he				tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, the rabbit tied him well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	nsubj
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the rabbit	him = he				well property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the rabbit hitched him good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hitched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hitched	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hitched	nsubj
5	hitched	hitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hitched	obj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hitched	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitch	past	the rabbit	him = he				good property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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