Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

No cap, why did Fox smell a rat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: smell · To what, where: rat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 smell	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smell	aux
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nsubj
7	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rat	det
9	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 smell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past · do-support	no cap	a rat					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus

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

He figured out Rabbit's trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 figured	nsubj
2	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 figured	compound:prt
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rabbit	case
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure out	past	He	Rabbit's trick					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
2	trick		Rabbit						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He noticed the tree was hollow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hollow	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hollow	cop
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 noticed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	He						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the tree					hollow property	tree rules

Option 3

He saw through Rabbit's tricks after the Buzzard had been fooled and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 tricks	case
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rabbit	case
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 fooled	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Buzzard	det
9	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fooled	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fooled	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 fooled	aux:pass
12	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fooled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	He		Rabbit's tricks	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fool	past · perfect · passive		the Buzzard		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	leave	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	trick		Rabbit			nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He realized Buzzard was not a good guard and Rabbit had escaped long before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 realized	nsubj
2	realized	realize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 guard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 guard	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 guard	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guard	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guard	amod
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 realized	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 escaped	cc
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 escaped	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 escaped	aux
12	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 realized	conj
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 before	advmod
14	before	before	ADV	_	12 escaped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	realize	past	He			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	past	Buzzard	a good guard		tree rules
3	escape	past · perfect	Rabbit		before property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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