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

Bruh, who was playing dead at the start?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: play · To what, where: start

This is test 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. 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 playing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 playing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	aux
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 playing	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive				the start		dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Buzzard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Buzzard	det
2	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Rabbit, hiding in the hollow tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rabbit	det
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hiding	punct
4	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Rabbit	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	the Rabbit not said here			the hollow tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

Option 4

The Squirrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Squirrel	det
2	Squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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