Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

What was the designated length of the course in the race between Brer Rabbit and Brer Tarrypin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: designate, be · To what, where: designated length, race

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 length	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 length	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 length	det
4	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 length	amod
5	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 course	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 course	det
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 length	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 race	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 race	det
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 length	nmod
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 Rabbit	case
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	compound
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 race	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Brer	cc
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	conj
17	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	flat
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 length	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the designated length		the race between Brer Rabbit and Brer		of the course	tree rules

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

three miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

two miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

five miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a mile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mile	det
2	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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