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

Where did Brer Rabbit conceal the carcass of the slaughtered cow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: be, conceal, slaughter · To what, where: carcass

This is exam question 2 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 conceal	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 conceal	nsubj
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Brer	flat
5	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carcass	det
7	carcass	carcass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conceal	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 cow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
10	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carcass	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			where property	tree rules
2	conceal	present	Brer	the carcass of the slaughtered cow		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient
3	slaughter	participle				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

In the smoke-house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 smoke	punct
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Beneath the porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 porch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porch	det
3	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Buried under the garden near the old chicken coop by the fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 garden	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl
5	near	near	ADP	_	9 coop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coop	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coop	amod
8	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coop	compound
9	coop	coop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 fence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fence	det
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle				the garden		near the old chicken coop; by the fence	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under garden=Destination

Option 4

Hidden deep in the back of the smoke-house behind the barrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	deep	deep	ADV	_	1 Hidden	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hidden	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 smoke	punct
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 barrels	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 barrels	det
13	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 house	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the back of the smoke house behind the barrels		deep property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in back=Location

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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