Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

Bruh, what did Rabbit tell the folks at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: tell · To what, where: folks, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 folks	det
8	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Rabbit	the folks			at the end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient folk=Topic

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

Fox was down the well trying to steal all of their fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 well	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 well	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 steal	mark
8	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 steal	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fish	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fish	nmod:poss
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fox		down the well	tree rules
2	try	gerund	the well not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	the well not said here	all		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme

Option 2

Fox dropped mud in the well and ran away from town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 town	case
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	Fox	mud		the well			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme in well=Destination
2	run away	past	Fox not said here			town		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from town=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fox was muddying their water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 muddying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 muddying	aux
3	muddying	muddy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 water	nmod:poss
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 muddying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	muddy	past · progressive	Fox	their water					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4

Fox was fishing in their pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fishing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fishing	aux
3	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pond	nmod:poss
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fishing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	past · progressive	Fox			their pond			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pond=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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