Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…
Bet, what kinda tree was the Rabbit hiding in?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet, Rabbit · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: Rabbit
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 tree | advmod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Rabbit | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rabbit | det |
| 8 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bet | appos |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Rabbit | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hiding | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bet | the Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | the Rabbit not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
A hollow tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A tall elm tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | elm | elm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A broken pecan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pecan | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pecan | amod |
| 3 | pecan | pecan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A big old hollow sycamore tree down by the creek bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 4 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 5 | sycamore | sycamore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 tree | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 10 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | compound |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | 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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