Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…
Lit, what did the Rabbit fake to get Buzzard running?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Buzzard · What happens: do, get, run · To what, where: Rabbit
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Lit | lit | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rabbit | det |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fake | advcl |
| 10 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 running | nsubj |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 get | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Rabbit | fake property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | run | gerund | Buzzard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
A squirrel in the tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 squirrel | det |
| 2 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squirrel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bear in the brush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 brush | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brush | det |
| 5 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bear | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A fat squirrel hiding up in the big oak tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 squirrel | det |
| 2 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 squirrel | amod |
| 3 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 squirrel | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hiding | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide up | gerund | a fat squirrel not said here | the big oak tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location |
Option 4
A possum in the tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 possum | det |
| 2 | possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 possum | nmod |
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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