Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

what rumor went around after that, fr fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, go around · To what, where: fr fr

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 went	nsubj
2	rumor	rumor	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fr	amod
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	go around	past		fr fr			after that	around property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

Squinch Owl caught some other critter and gobbled it down in the hollow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Squinch	appos
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 critter	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 critter	amod
6	critter	critter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gobbled	cc
8	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gobbled	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 gobbled	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hollow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hollow	det
13	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gobbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Squinch	some other critter					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent critter=Theme
2	gobble down	past	Squinch not said here	critter		the hollow			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Squinch Owl caught some other critter the same way that night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Squinch	appos
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 critter	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 critter	amod
6	critter	critter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl:unmarked
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Squinch	some other critter			night	the same way obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent critter=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Squinch Owl caught some other critter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Squinch	appos
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 critter	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 critter	amod
6	critter	critter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Squinch	some other critter					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent critter=Theme

Option 4

Squinch Owl caught a yellow bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Squinch	appos
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Squinch	a yellow bird					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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