Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

No cap, what was Rabbit telling Fox about the water?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: Rabbit telling Fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Fox	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 Fox	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Fox	cop
6	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Fox	compound
7	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 Fox	amod
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Fox	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	no cap and Rabbit telling Fox	Rabbit telling Fox				about the water	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

That it was full of mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 full	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mud	case
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					of mud; full property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That it was full of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 full	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					of fish; full property	tree rules

Option 3

Dry now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Dry	advmod

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

Option 4

It's cold

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	3 cold	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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