Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

Fr fr, how did Fox get down there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: get down

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fr	compound
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fr	conj
8	down	down	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 get	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past · do-support	Fox			there			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

He jumped down the old ladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladder	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ladder	amod
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump down	past	He	the old ladder					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He hopped into the bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 bucket	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past	He			the bucket			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bucket=Destination

Option 3

He jumped onto the bucket while Rabbit was still in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	5 bucket	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 still	mark
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 still	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 still	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	2 jumped	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	He			the bucket		in bucket	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent onto bucket=Initial_Location in it=Trajectory
2	is	past	Rabbit					still property	tree rules

Option 4

He tied a rope to his tail and slid down the well wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rope	det
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tail	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slid	cc
9	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 slid	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wall	compound
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	a rope				to his tail	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
2	slide down	past	He not said here	the well wall					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Agent

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