Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Who was Miss Meadows, anyway, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Miss Meadows

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Meadows	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Meadows	cop
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Meadows	compound
4	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Meadows	punct
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 Meadows	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Meadows	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Meadows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Miss Meadows and fam				anyway property	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

The girl who lived by the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 girl	acl:relcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 creek	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creek	det
7	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the girl					by the creek	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by creek=Location

Option 2

The lady who lived in the big house with the porch and girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lady	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 porch	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 porch	det
11	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 girls	cc
13	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 porch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the lady			the big house		with the porch and girls	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The lady with the porch and girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 porch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 porch	det
5	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lady	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 girls	cc
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 porch	conj

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

Option 4

The rich lady who owned the farm, the porch, the horses, and the girls

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 owned	nsubj
5	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lady	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 porch	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 porch	det
10	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farm	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 horses	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horses	det
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 farm	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 girls	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 girls	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girls	det
17	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lady	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	the rich lady and the girls	the farm and the porch and the horses					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farm=Theme

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