Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…
Yo, the fishes vanished, so who you think snagged 'em?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fishes · What happens: vanish, think, snag · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 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. 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 | _ | 5 vanished | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fishes | det |
| 4 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 vanished | nsubj |
| 5 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 think | advmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 think | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vanished | conj |
| 11 | snagged | snag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 think | ccomp |
| 12 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 snagged | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 vanished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the fishes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | snag | participle | 'em = they | tree rules |
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
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.
Option 2
Brer Rabbit, obvs, cuz he always be snaggin' fish
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 | _ | 4 obvs | punct |
| 4 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brer | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 snaggin | punct |
| 6 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snaggin | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 snaggin | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 snaggin | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 snaggin | cop |
| 10 | snaggin | snaggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 snaggin | punct |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snaggin | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | cuz | snaggin and fish | always property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Brer Rabbit, obvs
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 | _ | 4 obvs | punct |
| 4 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brer | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brer Bear, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bear | compound |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fam | punct |
| 4 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bear | conj |
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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