Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

What stratagem did Brer Wolf propose for the capture of Brer Rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stratagem, Brer · What happens: do, propose, capture · To what, where: Brer Rabbit

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 propose	nsubj
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	propose	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 capture	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 capture	det
9	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 propose	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Rabbit	case
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rabbit	compound
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 capture	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	stratagem			tree rules
2	propose	present	Brer		for the capture of Brer Rabbit	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	capture			Brer Rabbit		nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient

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

to feign the death of Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 feign	mark
2	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 death	det
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feign	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Fox	case
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fox	compound
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	to-infinitive		the death of Brer Fox					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	die		Brer Fox						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

to hide in the chimney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 chimney	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chimney	det
5	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive				the chimney			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chimney=Location

Option 3

to fake Brer Fox's funeral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fake	mark
2	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 funeral	nmod:poss
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Brer	flat
5	's	's	PART	_	3 Brer	case
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive		Brer's funeral					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Patient

Option 4

to feign the death of Brer Fox entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 feign	mark
2	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 death	det
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feign	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Fox	case
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fox	compound
7	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 feign	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	to-infinitive		the death of Brer Fox				entirely property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	die		Brer Fox						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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