Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…

Which fate befalls Brer Wolf after he enters the chest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fate · What happens: befall, enter · To what, where: Brer, chest

This is exam question 4 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 fate	det
2	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 befalls	nsubj
3	befalls	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 befalls	obj
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 enters	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 enters	nsubj
8	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 befalls	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chest	det
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enters	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 befalls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befall	present	which fate	Brer					tree rules
2	enter	present	fate	the chest					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chest=Destination

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 falls asleep

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 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 falls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	He					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is locked in by the hook

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	3 locked	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 locked	aux:pass
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 locked	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hook	det
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock in	present · passive	the hook	He					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is trapped when the hook catches in the hasp

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	3 trapped	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trapped	aux:pass
3	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 catches	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hook	det
6	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	nsubj
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trapped	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hasp	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hasp	det
10	hasp	hasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	present · passive		He					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	catch	present	the hook			the hasp			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He gets stuck in the lid

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 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gets	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 lid	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	He					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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