Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

Lowkey, what did Buzzard do wrong in this one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Buzzard · What happens: do

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	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	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Buzzard					in this one; Lowkey vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 was lazy

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	3 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He fell for the lie

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 lie	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	He					for the lie	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for lie=Theme

Option 3

He got too greedy

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 greedy	advmod
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					greedy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He flew too close

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	He					close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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