Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…

Which utensil does Brer Rabbit fill with water and place upon the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: utensil, Brer · What happens: do, fill

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 utensil	det
2	utensil	utensil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fill	nsubj
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fill	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 place	cc
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fill	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which utensil						tree rules
2	fill	present	Brer					with water and place; upon the fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument

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 kettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A big iron kettle hung over the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kettle	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kettle	compound
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kettle	acl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle		a big iron kettle not said here		the fire			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A kittle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kittle	det
2	kittle	kittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

A teakettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teakettle	det
2	teakettle	teakettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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