Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…
no cap that hunting bit was so petty, Rabbit made Fox look dumb
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hunting bit, Rabbit, cap · What happens: be, make, look · To what, where: petty, Fox
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 look | nsubj |
| 4 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | compound |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 petty | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 petty | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 petty | advmod |
| 8 | petty | petty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rabbit | punct |
| 10 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 petty | appos |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Rabbit | acl |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 14 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hunting bit | petty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | Rabbit not said here | Fox | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fox=Product | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | no cap | dumb property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
yeah he played him proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 played | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | obj |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 3 played | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | he | him = he | properly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
yeah he fooled him good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 fooled | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fooled | nsubj |
| 3 | fooled | fool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fooled | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fooled | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | past | he | him = he | good property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 3
yeah for real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 real | discourse |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 real | case |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah he tricked him big time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 tricked | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tricked | nsubj |
| 3 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tricked | obj |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tricked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past | he | him = he | time | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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