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

ok so the frogs were basically trolling Brer Fox the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frogs · What happens: troll · To what, where: Brer Fox

This is test 11 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 trolling	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 trolling	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trolling	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trolling	aux
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 trolling	advmod
7	trolling	troll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fox	compound
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 trolling	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trolling	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 trolling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	troll	past · progressive	the frogs	Brer Fox			time	basically property	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fox=Location

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 they told him fibs to get him wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 told	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	fibs	fib	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they		fibs				tree rules
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he				wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah they told him lies to make him fall in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 told	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lies	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lies	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	lie	present				tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive		him = he		tree rules
4	fall in	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah they were loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loud	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loud	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					loud property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah they fooled him so he jumped in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fooled	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fooled	nsubj
3	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jumped	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fooled	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 jumped	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 jumped	nsubj
7	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 jumped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past	they	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	jump in	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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