Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit…
yo bro, did Brer Rabbit totally flex on Miss Cow or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do · To what, where: Brer Rabbit
This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 2 bro | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bro | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 8 flex | advmod |
| 8 | flex | flex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Cow | case |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cow | compound |
| 11 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Cow | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | yo's bro | Brer Rabbit | on Miss Cow; flex obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |
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
yeah, he got her stuck in the tree and milked her dry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 milked | cc |
| 11 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dry | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 milked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | milk | past | he not said here | her dry | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dry=Source |
Option 2
yeah, he sure did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he got her stuck up there and milked her out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 there | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 there | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stuck | compound:prt |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 milked | cc |
| 10 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 milked | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 milked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stick up | participle | he not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | milk out | past | he not said here | her = she | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source |
Option 4
yeah, he got her stuck in the tree and milked her dry and then sold the milk to the whole county down the road
The tree, 24 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 milked | cc |
| 11 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dry | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 milked | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sold | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sold | advmod |
| 16 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 milk | det |
| 18 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 county | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 county | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 county | amod |
| 22 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | milk | past | he not said here | her dry | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dry=Source | ||||
| 3 | sell | past | he not said here | the milk | the whole county | then | down the road | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to county=Recipient |
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