Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…
Which animal, according to the text, was the first to leap over the burning brush-heap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: accord, be, leap, burn · To what, where: burning brush heap
This is exam question 1 of lesson 577 «Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Possum burned for butter, Rabbit bets Tarrypin a race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 first | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 text | punct |
| 4 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 text | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animal | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 animal | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 first | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 first | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 leap | mark |
| 13 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 first | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 heap | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heap | det |
| 16 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 heap | amod |
| 17 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heap | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 brush | punct |
| 19 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leap | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 first | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | which animal and the text | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leap | to-infinitive | the burning brush heap | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over heap=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Tarrypin, the slow swamp dweller
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dweller | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dweller | det |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dweller | amod |
| 6 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dweller | compound |
| 7 | dweller | dweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Brer Buzzard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Brer Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brer Tukkey Buzzard, the appointed judge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Tukkey | Tukkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 judge | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 judge | det |
| 6 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 judge | amod |
| 7 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/577-pg2306-part13/e1/