Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

Be so for real, what happened to the butter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, happen

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	cop
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 real	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 real	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 happened	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 butter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 butter	det
10	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happened	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	happen	past						to the butter	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Melted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was all gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

It went to Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Fox	case
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	It					to Fox	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fox=Initial_Location

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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