Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…
Who was appointed to adjudicate the contest and hold the wager?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: appoint, adjudicate, hold · To what, where: contest, wager
This is exam question 3 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appointed | aux:pass |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 adjudicate | mark |
| 5 | adjudicate | adjudicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 appointed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 contest | det |
| 7 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adjudicate | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hold | cc |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 adjudicate | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wager | det |
| 11 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 appointed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | adjudicate | to-infinitive | the contest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | the wager | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wager=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 swamp's oldest judge
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 | _ | 8 judge | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swamp | det |
| 5 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 judge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 swamp | case |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 judge | amod |
| 8 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Brer Owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Brer Tukkey Buzzard
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 |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brer Tukkey Crow
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 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
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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