Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Why's the fox all salty about the party?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: fox

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fox	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fox	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 salty	det
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 party	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the fox					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

The girls laughed at him and said there would be no party without him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 party	parataxis
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 be	expl
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 party	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 party	det
12	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	ccomp
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the girls		at him = he; without him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	infinitive	the girls not said here	no party		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Girls said no party without him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 party	det
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Girls	no party				without him = he	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent party=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The rabbit made him look silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the rabbit	him = he					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	him = he not said here					silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The girls said there'd be no party without him there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 be	expl
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 be	nsubj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girls			there		without party	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	would	no party			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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