Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

what did Rabbit say about Brer Tukkey Buzzard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 Tukkey	case
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tukkey	compound
7	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
8	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tukkey	flat
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Rabbit					about Brer Tukkey	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

didn't come to the funeral, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 funeral	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 funeral	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support				the funeral and no cap			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial_Location

Option 2

he said he didn't come to the funeral at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 funeral	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 funeral	det
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	past · do-support	he			all		to the funeral	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

didn't come to the funeral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 funeral	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support				the funeral			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial_Location

Option 4

never showed up to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 showed	advmod
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 showed	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 showed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show up	past							tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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