Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit…

Which character was placed by Brer Rabbit upon a shelf adjacent to the water-bucket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer Rabbit · What happens: place · To what, where: character, shelf

This is exam question 4 of lesson 572 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit tricks Miss Cow into a tree, then Brer Terrapin goes calling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Rabbit	case
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rabbit	compound
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 shelf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shelf	det
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
11	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shelf	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 bucket	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bucket	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bucket	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
16	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adjacent	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive	Brer Rabbit	which character		a shelf			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon shelf=Destination

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 cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Terrapin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Brer Possum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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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