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

Y'all know what a kittle is, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Y'all, kittle · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Y'all	y'all	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 know	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kittle	det
5	kittle	kittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	2 know	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Y'all						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	a kittle						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

A jar for water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jar	nmod

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

Option 2

A big pot for boiling water over the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pot	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pot	amod
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A pot for boiling water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A bowl for soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 soup	case
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowl	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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