Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

when Rabbit asked "who dar," what did Wolf say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit, Wolf · What happens: ask, dar, say · To what, where: dar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 asked	advmod
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dar	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dar	nsubj
6	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dar	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Rabbit		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dar in a quote				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Wolf	dar	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fr'en'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr'en	Fr'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Fr'en	case

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

Option 3

It's yo' frien' Brer Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 yo	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 yo	cop
3	yo	you	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 yo	punct
5	frien	frien	X	Foreign=Yes	3 yo	flat:foreign
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 yo	punct
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wolf	compound
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 yo	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	yo					tree rules

Option 4

Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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