Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Lol, why did the fox agree to be a horse?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 agree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 agree	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 agree	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 agree	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 agree	nsubj
7	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	11 horse	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 horse	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 agree	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past · do-support	the fox						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	a horse					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 rabbit bribed him with a pie

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 bribed	nsubj
3	bribed	bribe	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 bribed	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pie	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pie	det
7	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bribed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	past	the rabbit	him = he				with a pie	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The rabbit made him do it

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	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the rabbit	him = he					tree rules
2	do	infinitive	him = he not said here	rabbit					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The rabbit tricked him with excuses

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 tricked	nsubj
3	tricked	trick	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 tricked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 excuses	case
6	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the rabbit	him = he				with excuses	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

The rabbit tricked him with fancy talk and clever excuses all day

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 tricked	nsubj
3	tricked	trick	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 tricked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 talk	case
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talk	amod
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 excuses	cc
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 excuses	amod
10	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the rabbit	him = he			day	with fancy talk and clever excuses	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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