Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…

Dude, what did the rabbit say dead folks do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, dead folks · What happens: do, say · To what, where: rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folks	amod
9	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the rabbit	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Dude		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present	dead folks		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kick up a back leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Kick	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leg	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leg	compound
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick up	imperative	you not said here	a back leg					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 3

Raise a front paw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 paw	det
3	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paw	amod
4	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	imperative	you not said here	a front paw					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme

Option 4

Shake a back leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leg	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leg	compound
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	a back leg					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=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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