Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

Ngl, did Uncle Remus actually eat the teacake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: Uncle Remus, teacake

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Remus	compound
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teacake	det
9	teacake	teacake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	Uncle Remus					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Eventuality
2	eat	present	Ngl not said here	the teacake				actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacake=Patient

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

Nah, he saved it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	he	it					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he chomped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chomped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chomped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chomped	nsubj
4	chomped	chomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chomped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chomp	past	he	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he shared it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj
4	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	he	it					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «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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