Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Upon the return of Brer Wolf, which party was found to have removed the fishes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: party, Brer Wolf · What happens: find, remove, return · To what, where: party, fishes

This is exam question 1 of lesson 579 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Wolf out of his best cow, and Brer Wolf digs for nothing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 return	det
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Wolf	case
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wolf	compound
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 return	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 party	punct
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	14 removed	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 removed	aux
14	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 found	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fishes	det
16	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 removed	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		which party	upon the return of Brer Wolf	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	remove	to-infinitive · perfect	which party not said here	the fishes		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	return		Brer Wolf			nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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

Brer Rabbit, who had hidden them in the sugar barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hidden	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hidden	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hidden	aux
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Brer	acl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hidden	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 barrel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barrel	compound
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · passive		Brer		the sugar barrel			tree rules

Option 2

Brer Rabbit, who sneaked them off to his smoke-house late at night

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sneaked	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sneaked	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sneaked	nsubj
5	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sneaked	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 sneaked	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 smoke	punct
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneaked	obl
13	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sneaked	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak off	past	Brer	them = they		Brer's smoke house	night	late property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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

Option 4

Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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