Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Why'd the little boy's eyes get all watery?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eyes · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 watery	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 watery	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watery	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watery	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 watery	advmod
10	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 watery	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the little boy's eyes					all, watery property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Remus fussed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fussed	nsubj
2	fussed	fuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fussed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fuss	past	Remus					at him = he	tree rules

Option 2

Remus yelled at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 yelled	nsubj
2	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	Remus					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

Option 3

Remus hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Remus	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux:pass
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · passive		He					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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