Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

what was Rabbit wearin' on his head at the door?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Rabbit wearin, head

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 wearin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wearin	cop
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wearin	compound
4	wearin	wearin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 wearin	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wearin	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wearin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Rabbit wearin		his head at the door			tree rules

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

a bonnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bonnet	det
2	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a red hankcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hankcher	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hankcher	amod
3	hankcher	hankcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a red hankcher tied on tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hankcher	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hankcher	amod
3	hankcher	hankcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hankcher	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 tight	case
6	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a red hankcher not said here				on tight	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on tight=Co-Patient

Option 4

a blue hankcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hankcher	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hankcher	amod
3	hankcher	hankcher	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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