Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Bro, after the crop, what did Brer Buzzard end up with?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: end up · To what, where: Bro

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crop	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 crop	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crop	det
5	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 end	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Brer	aux
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 end	nsubj
10	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Brer	flat
11	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 end	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	11 end	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	Brer	Bro and the crop					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result

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

Some corn stalks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 stalks	det
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stalks	compound
3	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A small piece of meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piece	amod
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod

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

Option 4

Just a few bones and a bit of cornmeal from the last crop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 bones	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bones	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bit	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bones	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cornmeal	case
9	cornmeal	cornmeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 crop	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crop	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 crop	amod
13	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cornmeal	nmod

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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