Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Yo, who's the dude who came up short in the new tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be, come up · To what, where: dude

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	6 dude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dude	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dude	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dude	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADV	_	10 short	advmod
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tale	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tale	amod
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 short	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the dude					tree rules
2	come up	past	the dude					short property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Buzzard, who came up short in the new tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
2	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 tale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tale	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tale	amod
11	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Brer					short property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Brer Turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Brer Possum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Buzzard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/579-pg2306-part15/t11/