Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

Which character concealed himself beneath the bed when the disturbance commenced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, disturbance · What happens: conceal, commence · To what, where: character, bed

This is exam question 3 of lesson 573 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of the chimney, and Brer Wolf makes a plan» 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	3 concealed	nsubj
3	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 concealed	obj
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 concealed	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 commenced	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 disturbance	det
10	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 commenced	nsubj
11	commenced	commence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 concealed	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 concealed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past	which character	character		the bed			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient beneath bed=Location
2	commence	participle	the disturbance						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Brer Rabbit's little cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	compound
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cousin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rabbit	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cousin	amod
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

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.

Option 3

Brer Tukkey Buzzard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Tarrypin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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