Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

what did Rabbit say he'd do if Fox kept clownin'?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit, Fox · What happens: say, do, keep · To what, where: clownin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	clownin	clownin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 clownin	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Rabbit		tree rules
2	do	would	Rabbit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Fox	clownin	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clownin=Theme

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

yell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3

lock him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lock	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 lock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

thrash him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thrash	thrash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 thrash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrash	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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