Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

wait, what made Rabbit sneeze, y'all?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Rabbit · What happens: wait, make, sneeze · To what, where: Rabbit, y'all

This is test 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. 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
6	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 y'all	punct
8	y'all	y'all	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sneeze	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past		Rabbit	tree rules
3	sneeze	infinitive	Rabbit not said here	y'all	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

the thick smoke and flying ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smoke	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smoke	amod
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ashes	cc
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ashes	amod
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smoke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the smoke from that pot of greens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 pot	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 greens	case
7	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pot	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

smoke and ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ashes	cc
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 smoke	conj

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

Option 4

burnt sage, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sage	amod
2	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fr	punct
4	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sage	conj

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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