Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

yo did Brer Rabbit like actually cook Brer Wolf or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, cook · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, Brer

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Rabbit	compound
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 cook	mark
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 cook	advmod
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cook	obj
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Brer	flat
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 Brer	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Brer Rabbit					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality
2	cook	infinitive		Brer				actually property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brer=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he totally scalded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scalded	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scalded	nsubj
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 scalded	advmod
4	scalded	scald	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scalded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scald	past	he	him = he				totally property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

yeah he scorched him a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 scorched	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scorched	nsubj
3	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scorched	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scorched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	past	he	him = he				a bit obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

nah he didn't cook him, he just tricked him into the chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cook	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cook	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cook	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cook	advmod
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cook	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tricked	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricked	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 tricked	advmod
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cook	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricked	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 chest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chest	det
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cook	past · do-support	he	him = he					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	trick	past	he	him = he				into the chest result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into chest=Result

Option 4

yeah he totally scalded him with a kettle of hot water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scalded	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scalded	nsubj
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 scalded	advmod
4	scalded	scald	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scalded	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 kettle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kettle	det
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scalded	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kettle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scald	past	he	him = he				with a kettle of hot water; totally property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with kettle=Instrument

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