Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…
Sus, what did Rabbit sing while passing Fox?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: sing, pass · To what, where: Sus, Fox
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 sing | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | aux |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sus | conj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 passing | mark |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sing | advcl |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · do-support | Rabbit | Sus | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | Rabbit not said here | Fox | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Trajectory |
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
Goodbye, watch your step down there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Goodbye | punct |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 step | nmod:poss |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watch | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 watch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | infinitive | Goodbye | your step | there | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||
| 2 | step | your | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Goodbye, take care of your clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Goodbye | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | Goodbye | care | of your clothes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of clothes=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Hi, Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 3 Fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hi | punct |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bye bye now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bye | bye | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | bye | bye | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Bye | goeswith |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Bye | advmod |
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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