Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

Fr fr, how did the Fox grab the Buzzard?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fr fr, Fox · What happens: do, grab · To what, where: Buzzard

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fr	compound
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fox	det
7	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 grab	nsubj
8	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Buzzard	det
10	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 grab	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fr fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grab	present	the Fox	the Buzzard					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=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

He grabbed him by his long bare tail feathers

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 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 feathers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feathers	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feathers	amod
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feathers	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feathers	compound
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	him = he				by his long bare tail feathers	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By the tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 tail	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tail	det
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

By the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 neck	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neck	det
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fox caught him by the wings while he flapped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wings	det
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 flapped	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flapped	nsubj
9	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Fox	him = he				by the wings	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	flap	past	Fox						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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