Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…

Gee, what's the rabbit doing with the newspaper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gee, rabbit · What happens: be, do · To what, where: rabbit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rabbit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 rabbit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rabbit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gee	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rabbit	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 newspaper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 newspaper	det
10	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gee	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Gee and the rabbit	the rabbit					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the rabbit not said here					with the newspaper	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

Burning it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burning	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Burning	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	gerund		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Reading it by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Reading	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		it				by the fire	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Wrapping the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrapping	wrap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrapping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	gerund			the fish				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Destination

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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