Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

what's Uncle Remus doing with his knife in the last bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: do · To what, where: last bit

This is test 12 · ★ 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	5 doing	obj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 knife	nmod:poss
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 bit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	Uncle Remus			the last bit		with Remus's knife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

whetting it on his palm, slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whetting	whet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 slow	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whetting	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 palm	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 palm	nmod:poss
5	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whetting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 whetting	punct
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whet	gerund		it		his palm			tree rules

Option 2

sharpening it on a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sharpening	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sharpening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	gerund		it		a stone			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

sharpening it on his boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sharpening	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 boot	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boot	nmod:poss
5	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sharpening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	gerund		it		his boot			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

whetting it on his palm, slow and steady, while the boy watched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whetting	whet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 watched	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whetting	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 palm	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 palm	nmod:poss
5	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whetting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slow	punct
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palm	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 steady	cc
9	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slow	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watched	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 watched	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watched	nsubj
14	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whet	gerund		it		his palm			tree rules
2	watch	past	the boy						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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