Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

what's the deal with hard sense, is that like a real joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real joke, that · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 10 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joke	parataxis
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sense	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sense	amod
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 joke	cop
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 joke	nsubj
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 joke	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 joke	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 joke	amod
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a real joke	the deal				with hard sense	tree rules
2	is	present	that					like a real joke	tree rules

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

yeah it's a joke about a hard cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 joke	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joke	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 cheese	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cheese	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cheese	amod
9	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a joke				about a hard cheese	tree rules

Option 2

yeah it's a joke about getting a hard lesson the tough way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 joke	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joke	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 joke	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lesson	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lesson	amod
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a joke					tree rules
2	get	gerund	a joke not said here	a hard lesson				the tough way obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah it's a joke about getting a hard lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 joke	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joke	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 joke	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lesson	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lesson	amod
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a joke					tree rules
2	get	gerund	a joke not said here	a hard lesson					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus

Option 4

nah it's a kind of hard candy that Brer Rabbit eats all the time in the woods

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kind	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 candy	case
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 candy	amod
8	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 eats	obj
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 eats	nsubj
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eats	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 woods	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woods	det
18	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of hard candy	tree rules
2	eat	present	Brer Rabbit	a kind		the woods	time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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