Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

so what did Tarrypin holler back to Rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tarrypin · What happens: holler back, rabbit

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 holler	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 holler	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 holler	aux
4	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 holler	nsubj
5	holler	holler	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 holler	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Rabbit	case
8	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 holler	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 holler	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	holler back speech: other	past · do-support	Tarrypin						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	rabbit	infinitive	Tarrypin not said here						vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yer I come a bilin' right up outa de mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bilin	det
5	bilin	bilin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bilin	punct
7	right	right	ADV	_	9 outa	advmod
8	up	up	ADP	_	9 outa	case
9	outa	outa	X	Foreign=Yes	11 mud	amod
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 outa	flat
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Yer	a bilin				outa mud obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bilin=Theme

Option 2

I'm over here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
3	over	over	ADV	_	4 here	advmod
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					here, over property	tree rules

Option 3

Yonder in de briar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 briar	case
3	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 briar	amod
4	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yonder	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Yer I come a bilin'"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	Yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bilin	det
6	bilin	bilin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	Yer	a bilin					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bilin=Theme

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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