Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…

Did Brer Fox grab Tarrypin's tail, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: fox · To what, where: grab

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fox	aux
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fox	nsubj
3	Fox	fox	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Fox	obj
5	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Tarrypin	case
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grab	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	3 Fox	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fox	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Fox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fox	past · do-support	Brer	grab					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grab=Experiencer

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

Yes, he pulled it hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pulled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	he	it				hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he bit it and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	he	it					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	run	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he grabbed it and held on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grabbed	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 held	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hold on	participle	he not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he grabbed it and held on tight while Tarrypin pulled away from him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grabbed	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 tight	case
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 held	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 pulled	mark
11	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	advcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 pulled	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	it			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hold	participle	he not said here		tight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location
3	pull away	past	Tarrypin			from him = he; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source

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