Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

In what manner did Mr. Buzzard depart from the scene of the stratagem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Buzzard · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: manner, scene

This is exam question 4 of lesson 571 «Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox and Brer Buzzard into the hollow tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buzzard	nmod:desc
6	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 depart	nsubj
7	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 scene	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scene	det
10	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depart	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stratagem	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stratagem	det
13	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scene	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				what manner			tree rules
2	depart	present	Buzzard Mr.			the scene of the stratagem			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from scene=Initial_Location

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

He ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

By walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By flight, shedding tail feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 flight	case
2	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shedding	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flight	punct
4	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shedding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	gerund		tail feathers				by flight	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feather=Source

Option 4

By running away, shedding his hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 running	mark
2	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 running	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shedding	punct
5	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 running	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hat	nmod:poss
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shedding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	gerund						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shed	gerund		his hat					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hat=Source

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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