Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

yo, what did Brer Possum do at the fire?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Brer Possum, fire

This is test 9 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Possum	compound
6	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Brer Possum					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Eventuality
2	do	present				the fire			vn act-114-1 «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

stood still and watched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 stood	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 watched	cc
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 stood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past					still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he hollered and ran home the long way around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hollered	nsubj
2	hollered	holler	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ran	cc
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hollered	conj
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hollered	obl:unmarked
9	around	around	ADV	_	2 hollered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	holler speech: other	past	he	the long way				around property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	he not said here					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

tripped and fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fell	cc
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 tripped	conj
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall down	past						down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

jumped right in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 jumped	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past				the middle		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Trajectory

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