Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Bro, did the rabbit smoke a cigar like a grown man?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, grow · To what, where: rabbit smoke

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smoke	det
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	compound
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cigar	det
8	cigar	cigar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cigar	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the rabbit smoke					tree rules
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, he puffed a real seegyar in front of all the girls on the porch

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 puffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 puffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 puffed	nsubj
4	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seegyar	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seegyar	amod
7	seegyar	seegyar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puffed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puffed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 girls	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 girls	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girls	det
13	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 front	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 porch	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 porch	det
16	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puff	past	he	a real seegyar		front of all girls on the porch			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seegyar=Source

Option 2

Yeah, a real seegyar like a fancy town dude at the big fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 seegyar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seegyar	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seegyar	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seegyar	amod
5	seegyar	seegyar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 dude	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dude	det
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dude	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dude	compound
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seegyar	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 fair	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fair	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fair	amod
14	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dude	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a real seegyar like a town dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 seegyar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seegyar	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seegyar	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seegyar	amod
5	seegyar	seegyar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 dude	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dude	compound
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seegyar	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, he smoked it like a preacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 smoked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smoked	nsubj
4	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smoked	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 preacher	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 preacher	det
8	preacher	preacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smoked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	past	he	it				like a preacher	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source

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