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

Lowkey, what was the wolf lugging on his shoulder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, wolf · What happens: be, lug · To what, where: wolf, shoulder

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wolf	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wolf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wolf	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
7	lugging	lug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wolf	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulder	nmod:poss
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lugging	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the wolf					tree rules
2	lug	gerund	the wolf not said here			Lowkey's shoulder			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

A massive string of fish he caught at the creek earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fish	case
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 string	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 creek	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creek	det
10	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
11	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a massive string of fish			the creek		early property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at creek=Asset

Option 2

A long string of catfish, lowkey stolen, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 catfish	case
5	catfish	catfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 string	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 string	conj
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lowkey	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 string	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 string	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle		lowkey not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A load of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 load	det
2	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wood	case
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 load	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A string of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 string	det
2	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 string	nmod

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

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