Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

Sus, what did Buzzard do when he got free?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sus, Buzzard · What happens: do, get

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Sus						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	get	past	Buzzard					free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Flew off, dropping tail feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Flew	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropping	punct
4	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Flew	advcl
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	gerund		tail feathers					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme

Option 2

Walked off, dropping his hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Walked	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropping	punct
4	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Walked	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hat	nmod:poss
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	participle							vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	gerund		his hat					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Option 3

Flapped off over the hill and never came back to the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flapped	flap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Flapped	compound:prt
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 hill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flapped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 came	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Flapped	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap off	participle				the hill			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location
2	not come back	past				the field			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location

Option 4

Flew off, dropping his beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Flew	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropping	punct
4	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Flew	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beak	nmod:poss
6	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	gerund		his beak					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme

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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