Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Be real, why's Brer Rabbit mopin' around like he's scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: be · To what, where: Rabbit mopin

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mopin	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 mopin	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mopin	cop
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rabbit	compound
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mopin	compound
8	mopin	mopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 real	obl
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 mopin	punct
10	around	around	ADV	_	8 mopin	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 scared	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scared	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scared	cop
14	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mopin	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	is a	present		Rabbit mopin	around property	tree rules
3	is	present	he		scared 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 · ← Mova's choice

Worried about his crop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 crop	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 crop	nmod:poss
4	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Worried	obl

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

Option 2

Scared they'll sell him out to the patter-rollers at the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sell	advcl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	iobj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sell	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 rollers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rollers	det
9	patter	patter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rollers	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 patter	punct
11	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sell	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 creek	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 creek	det
14	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell out	future	they		him = he	the creek		to the patter rollers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme to roller=Recipient at creek=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scared they'll sell him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sell	advcl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	iobj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell out	future	they		him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Scared they'll sell him out and take his cow, his house, and his whole farm

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Scared	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	iobj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sell	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 take	cc
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sell	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cow	nmod:poss
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cow	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 farm	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 farm	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 farm	nmod:poss
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 farm	amod
18	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell out	future	they		him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	take	infinitive	they not said here		his cow and his house				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination

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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