Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

ngl the bit with the fleas was lowkey savage, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bit · What happens: ngl, be · To what, where: lowkey savage

This is test 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. 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 savage	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fleas	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fleas	det
6	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 savage	cop
8	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 savage	amod
9	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	1 ngl	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	the bit with the fleas	lowkey savage					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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he kept lying about the fleas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 fleas	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fleas	det
7	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	lie	gerund	he not said here					about the fleas	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about flea=Location

Option 2

yeah he blamed the fleas on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 blamed	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blamed	nsubj
3	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fleas	det
5	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blamed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	he	the fleas				on him = he	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Theme

Option 3

yeah he kept on lying about the fleas to the wolf the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 lying	mark
5	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 fleas	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fleas	det
8	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lying	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 wolf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	lie	gerund	he not said here				time	about the fleas; to the wolf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about flea=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah he kept saying the fleas were biting him all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 biting	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fleas	det
6	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saying	obj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 biting	aux
8	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 biting	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he		night	long property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund		the fleas			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent flea=Topic
3	bite	past · progressive	saying	him = he			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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