Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

fr why did Rabbit's kids cover their mouths doe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, kids · What happens: do, cover · To what, where: mouths doe

This is test 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. 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 fr	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kids	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rabbit	case
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cover	nsubj
7	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 doe	nmod:poss
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 doe	compound
10	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cover	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						tree rules
2	cover	present	Rabbit's kids	kids's mouths doe					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent doe=Destination

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

cause they wanted to stay quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	cause not said here					tree rules
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	cause not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause they were trying not to laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 laugh	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 laugh	mark
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	cause						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive	cause not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cause they were scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they	cause not said here				scared property	tree rules

Option 4

cause they were trying to hush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cause	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hush	mark
6	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	they						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hush not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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