Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…
So the rabbit's house kept getting wrecked, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: keep, get, wreck
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 rabbit | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrecked | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 getting | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the rabbit's house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the rabbit's house not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wreck | participle | the rabbit's house not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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
Yes, it got wrecked once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 wrecked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 5 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 wrecked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | past · passive | it | once property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, it got raided a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 raided | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 raided | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raided | aux:pass |
| 5 | raided | raid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raided | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raid | past · passive | it | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it got raided over and over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 raided | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 raided | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raided | aux:pass |
| 5 | raided | raid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 raided | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 over | cc |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 over | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raid | past · passive | it | over property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |
Option 4
Yeah, it got raided over and over by the wolf and fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 raided | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raided | aux:pass |
| 5 | raided | raid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 raided | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 over | cc |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 over | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 wolf | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raided | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fox | cc |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wolf | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raid | past · passive | the wolf and fox | it | over property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location |
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