Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…
so what bonked Brer Fox on the head, no cap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bonk · To what, where: Brer Fox, head
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 bonked | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 bonked | nsubj |
| 3 | bonked | bonk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fox | compound |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bonked | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bonked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bonked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bonk | past | Brer Fox | the head and no cap | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fox=Patient on head=Location |
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
Rabbit's big ol' rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ol | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Rabbit | case |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ol | amod |
| 4 | ol | ol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rock | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ol | punct |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Tarrypin's big ol' scramble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ol | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tarrypin | case |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ol | amod |
| 4 | ol | ol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scramble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 ol | case |
| 6 | scramble | scramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | Tarrypin's big ol | nom scramble «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
a skillet, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 skillet | det |
| 2 | skillet | skillet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cap | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 cap | det |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skillet | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tarrypin's big ol' scramble, fr fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ol | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tarrypin | case |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ol | amod |
| 4 | ol | ol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scramble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 ol | case |
| 6 | scramble | scramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fr | punct |
| 8 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fr | compound |
| 9 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scramble | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | Tarrypin's big ol | nom scramble «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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