Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…
yo what did Brer Rabbit even say he'd do to Brer Fox?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 say | discourse |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 say | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Fox | case |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fox | compound |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | would | Brer | to Brer Fox | 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 · ← Mova's choice
show Brer Fox who wins fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 show | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wins | nsubj |
| 5 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wins | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | Brer Fox | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | win | present | Brer Fox | fair property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
show he's the boss of Brer Fox and the whole swamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boss | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boss | det |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Brer | case |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nmod |
| 8 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swamp | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swamp | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 swamp | amod |
| 12 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | show | the boss and the whole swamp | of Brer | tree rules |
Option 3
show he's the boss of Brer Fox, then take his whole shanty apart
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boss | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boss | det |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Brer | case |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nmod |
| 8 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 take | advmod |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 boss | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shanty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shanty | amod |
| 14 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | show | the boss | of Brer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | Brer's whole shanty | then | apart property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shanty=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
show he's the boss of Brer Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boss | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boss | det |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | show | the boss | of Brer Fox | tree rules |
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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