Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

bro, what's a "skaddle" supposed to mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, suppose, mean · To what, where: skaddle, bro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 supposed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 skaddle	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 skaddle	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 skaddle	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 skaddle	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 skaddle	punct
7	skaddle	skaddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 skaddle	punct
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 mean	mark
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 supposed	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 supposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	bro	a skaddle	tree rules
2	suppose	participle · passive		bro	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	mean	to-infinitive			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

scatter, like running off fast when the dogs come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scatter	scatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 running	mark
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 scatter	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 running	compound:prt
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 running	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 come	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 running	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	gerund						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	the dogs						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

scatter, like running off fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scatter	scatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 running	mark
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 scatter	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 running	compound:prt
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	gerund						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

scatter, like running off fast into the briar patch to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scatter	scatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 running	mark
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 scatter	appos
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 running	compound:prt
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 running	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 patch	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 patch	det
9	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patch	compound
10	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 patch	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	gerund						into the briar patch result; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into patch=Result
2	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a loud noise, like thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 noise	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thunder	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 thunder	case
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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