Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…
Bet, who got the butter first?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: get · To what, where: butter
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 576 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down the well, and the butter goes missing» 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 | Bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 butter | det |
| 6 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 got | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Bet | the butter | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer butter=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
Brer Possum carried it home from the spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 spring | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spring | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Brer | it | spring | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Brer Fox brought it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Brer | it | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Brer Possum got it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Brer | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
Brer Rabbit found it near the creek in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 creek | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creek | det |
| 7 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creek | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Brer | it | the creek in town | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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