Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

Real talk, what was dripping through the shanty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: drip · To what, where: shanty

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dripping	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 dripping	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dripping	aux
6	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 talk	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 shanty	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shanty	det
9	shanty	shanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dripping	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	past · progressive	Real talk			the shanty			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through 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

The rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The roof was leaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaking	aux
4	leaking	leak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak	past · progressive	the roof						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

The stove was smoking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stove	det
2	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smoking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smoking	aux
4	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	past · progressive	the stove						vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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