Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…
how'd Rabbit get Fox to look up, fr?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: 'd Rabbit, Fox · What happens: get, look up · To what, where: Fox, fr
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | 'd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 look | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fr | punct |
| 10 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | infinitive | 'd Rabbit | Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look up | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | fr | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
he spit tobacky juice right in his eyes twice
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 spit | nsubj |
| 2 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tobacky | tobacky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 juice | amod |
| 4 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spit | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 eyes | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spit | obl |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 spit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | he | tobacky juice | his eyes | twice property | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Theme in eye=Destination |
Option 2
spit tobacky juice in his eyes, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 juice | compound |
| 2 | tobacky | tobacky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 juice | amod |
| 3 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 juice | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cap | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cap | det |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 juice | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
blew smoke in his face, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 blew | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 face | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 blew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fr | punct |
| 7 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 face | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | smoke | in his face and fr | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent smoke=Patient in face=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
spit tobacky juice in his eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 juice | compound |
| 2 | tobacky | tobacky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 juice | amod |
| 3 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 juice | nmod |
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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