Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…
Ngl, who lived in the shanty with Rabbit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: live · To what, where: shanty
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shanty | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shanty | det |
| 7 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Rabbit | case |
| 9 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shanty | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Ngl | the shanty with Rabbit | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shanty=Location |
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
Brer Fox, Brer Possum and his old woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brer | punct |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | conj |
| 5 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 woman | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 woman | nmod:poss |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Brer Fox and Brer Possum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Brer | cc |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | conj |
| 5 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Brer Fox, Brer Possum, and the children from town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Possum | punct |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Possum | compound |
| 5 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 children | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brer | appos |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 children | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brer Fox and Mrs. Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Mrs. | cc |
| 4 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | conj |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mrs. | flat |
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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