Test 14 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

Fam, what did Rabbit say melted the butter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: say, melt · To what, where: Fam, butter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fam	conj
7	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 say	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 butter	det
9	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 melted	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Rabbit	Fam					tree rules
2	melt	participle		the butter					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient butter=Result

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

Heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Somebody's mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 mouth	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Somebody	case
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The hot summer sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sun	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sun	compound
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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