Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…
Deadass, what was the Buzzard hollering the whole time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Deadass, Buzzard · What happens: be, holler · To what, where: Buzzard
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Deadass | Deadass | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Buzzard | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 Buzzard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Buzzard | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buzzard | det |
| 6 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Deadass | conj |
| 7 | hollering | holler | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Buzzard | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hollering | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deadass | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Deadass and the Buzzard | the Buzzard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | holler speech: other | gerund | the Buzzard not said here | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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
"Dat rabbit in dere"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rabbit | punct |
| 2 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dere | case |
| 5 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rabbit | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rabbit | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"He in dar, Brer Fox"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dar | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dar | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dar | case |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fox | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | compound |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dar | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"He done gone, Fox"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | He | Fox | gone property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
"He in dar, Brer Fox, he in dar, look sharp, he in dar"
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dar | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dar | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dar | case |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brer | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | appos |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brer | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dar | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dar | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dar | case |
| 11 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 look | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dar | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dar | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dar | case |
| 18 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dar | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | dar and dar | sharp property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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