Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

Real talk, what did Brer Rabbit wish for at the hole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: wish · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wish	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 wish	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wish	aux
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wish	nsubj
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brer	flat
8	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 hole	case
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wish	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past · do-support	Brer	Real talk				for the hole	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 · ← Mova's choice

That Brer Possum were there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Possum	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Possum	compound
3	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Brer Possum					there property	tree rules

Option 2

That Brer Turtle were there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Turtle	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Brer Turtle					there property	tree rules

Option 3

That the whole family of Buzzards had come to watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 come	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 family	amod
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Buzzards	case
6	Buzzards	buzzard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 family	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	That						tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive	That not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That Brer Buzzard were there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Brer	det
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Brer					there property	tree rules

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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