Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…
ok so who's the real snitch in this story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: real snitch, story
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 7 snitch | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 snitch | advmod |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 snitch | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snitch | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snitch | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snitch | amod |
| 7 | snitch | snitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snitch | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 snitch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real snitch | this story | tree rules |
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
Jack Sparrer, the little tattling bird who ran to Brer Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Sparrer | Sparrer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 6 | tattling | tattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | compound |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | appos |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bird | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Fox | case |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fox | compound |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the little tattling bird | to Brer Fox result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fox=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Jack Sparrer, the little tattling bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Sparrer | Sparrer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 6 | tattling | tattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | compound |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | acl:relcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Brer Fox, the sly old hunter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunter | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunter | det |
| 5 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunter | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunter | amod |
| 7 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brer Terrapin, the cheating one there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Terrapin | Terrapin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheating | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cheating | det |
| 5 | cheating | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Brer | acl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cheating | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 one | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | gerund | Brer not said here | one | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Source |
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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