Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…
In what container does Brer Rabbit direct Brer Wolf to take refuge?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: rabbit, take · To what, where: direct Brer, container, refuge
This is exam question 2 of lesson 574 «Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rabbit traps Brer Wolf in a chest and then sets a kettle on the fire» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 container | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 container | det |
| 3 | container | container | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rabbit | aux |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Brer | amod |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | obj |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Rabbit | advcl |
| 12 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rabbit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | present · do-support | Brer | direct Brer | what container | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Location | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Brer not said here | refuge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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
A large chest with a hasp and a hook on the lid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chest | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chest | amod |
| 3 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hasp | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hasp | det |
| 6 | hasp | hasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chest | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hook | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hook | det |
| 9 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hasp | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lid | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lid | det |
| 12 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hook | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sack | det |
| 2 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A large chest with a hasp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chest | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chest | amod |
| 3 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hasp | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hasp | det |
| 6 | hasp | hasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chest | 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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