Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

so Fox pretended to be old man Hunter from Huntsville, super sus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: pretend, be · To what, where: sus, Huntsville, old man

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 pretended	advmod
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 man	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	ccomp
8	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Huntsville	case
10	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sus	punct
12	super	super	ADV	_	13 sus	advmod
13	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Fox	sus		Huntsville			tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	Fox not said here	old man					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah he was trying to fool everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trying	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fool	mark
6	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	he						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fool not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	everyone					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

Option 2

yeah he meant to trick folks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 meant	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 trick	mark
5	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	folks					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient

Option 3

yeah he tried to fool the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 tried	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fool	mark
5	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fool not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the town					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient

Option 4

yeah he was trying to fool everyone in the whole county

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trying	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fool	mark
6	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 fool	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 county	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 county	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 county	amod
11	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	he						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fool not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	everyone		the whole county			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

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