Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…
Bet the wolf's not chill right now, huh?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: bet, not be
This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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 | Bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chill | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 chill | advmod |
| 6 | chill | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bet | ccomp |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 now | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 chill | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 huh | punct |
| 10 | huh | huh | INTJ | _ | 6 chill | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | imperative | you not said here | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | the wolf | now | chill property | tree rules |
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
Yes, he's in trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 trouble | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | trouble | tree rules |
Option 2
Yep, he's in a big mess and the dogs are still coming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 8 mess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mess | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mess | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mess | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mess | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mess | amod |
| 8 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 coming | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dogs | det |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 mess | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | a big mess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | the dogs | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yep, he's in a big mess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 8 mess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mess | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mess | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mess | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mess | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mess | amod |
| 8 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | a big mess | tree rules |
Option 4
Yep, he's feeling happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 feeling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | aux |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | he | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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