Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Which implement was not employed by Brer Wolf in his excavation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: not employ, excavate · To what, where: implement, excavation

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Brer	case
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 employed	obl:agent
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	flat
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 excavation	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 excavation	nmod:poss
11	excavation	excavation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 employed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not employ	past · passive	Brer	which implement		Brer's excavation			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	excavate		Brer						nom excavation «act intransitive»: poss=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

A hoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hoe	det
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A hatchet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hatchet	det
2	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A plough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plough	det
2	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A rake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rake	det
2	rake	rake	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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