Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Ain't the rabbit cool as a cucumber, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cool	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	obl:unmarked
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 cucumber	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cucumber	det
8	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 cool	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cool	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Totally, he just sat there chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there		chill, totally property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Totally, he sat there chill while the whole crowd stared at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	xcomp
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 stared	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crowd	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crowd	amod
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stared	nsubj
11	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there		chill, totally property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	past	the whole crowd					at him = he	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

Option 3

Totally cool, he sat there chill and never once blinked at the girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	parataxis
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blinked	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 blinked	advmod
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 blinked	advmod
11	blinked	blink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cool	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 girls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girls	det
14	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blinked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there		chill property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not blink	participle						once property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Totally, he was super nervous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	6 nervous	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nervous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nervous	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 nervous	advmod
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					nervous, super, totally property	tree rules

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