Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

wait Brer Fox fell in the pond cause he wanted to shake hands?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Brer Fox, Fox · What happens: wait, fall, cause, want, shake · To what, where: pond, hands

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fox	compound
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	obl
8	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 shake	mark
12	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shake	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	Brer Fox			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	cause	present	Brer Fox not said here		the pond	tree rules
4	want	past	Fox			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	shake not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fox not said here	hands		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah the other fox was in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 water	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fox	amod
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 water	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the other fox			the water			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah he saw a fox in the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 saw	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	a fox		the pond			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus

Option 3

yeah he was thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thirsty	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thirsty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thirsty	cop
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yeah he leaned over the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 leaned	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leaned	nsubj
3	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	he			the bank			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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