Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

What identity did Brer Fox declare he would assume upon returning home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: identity, Brer Fox, Fox · What happens: do, declare, assume, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 575 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit scalds Brer Wolf with hot water» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 identity	det
2	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	compound
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declare	nsubj
6	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 assume	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 assume	aux
9	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 declare	ccomp
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 returning	mark
11	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 assume	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 returning	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	what identity		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	declare speech: other	present	Brer Fox		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	assume	would	Fox		vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	return	gerund	Fox not said here	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

That of old man Hunter from Huntsville

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 man	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 That	nmod
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Huntsville	case
7	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hunter	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That of a travelling preacher named old man Hunter from Huntsville

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 preacher	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 preacher	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 preacher	det
4	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 preacher	amod
5	preacher	preacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Hunter	nmod:desc
9	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 preacher	appos
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Huntsville	case
11	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hunter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	name	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That of young man Hunter from Tennessee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 man	case
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 That	nmod
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Tennessee	case
7	Tennessee	Tennessee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hunter	nmod

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

Option 4

That of old man Hunter from Huntsville, a stranger passing through town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Hunter	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 man	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hunter	obl
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Huntsville	case
7	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hunter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stranger	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hunter	appos
11	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stranger	acl
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 town	case
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	a stranger not said here			town			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location

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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