Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…
What reply did Brer Fox make when Brer Rabbit enquired about his day's sport?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer, Brer Rabbit, day · What happens: reply, make, enquire, sport · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 reply | nsubj |
| 2 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 reply | ccomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 enquired | advmod |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 enquired | nsubj |
| 10 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | ccomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 sport | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sport | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 day | case |
| 15 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enquired | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · do-support | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | enquire speech: other | past | Brer Rabbit | about Rabbit's day's sport | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about sport=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sport | Rabbit's day | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=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
That he had shot a fat old squirrel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shot | aux |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 squirrel | det |
| 6 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 squirrel | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 squirrel | amod |
| 8 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | That | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination squirrel=Theme |
Option 2
That he had caught a handful of hard sense and lost his game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 handful | det |
| 6 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sense | case |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sense | amod |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 handful | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lost | cc |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 game | nmod:poss |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | That | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary handful=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | his game | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
Option 3
That he had caught a bag of hard corn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 corn | case |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 corn | amod |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bag | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | That | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary bag=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That he had caught a handful of hard sense
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 handful | det |
| 6 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sense | case |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sense | amod |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 handful | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | That | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary handful=Theme |
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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