Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Dude, what deal did the rabbit offer the wolf?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: offer · To what, where: wolf

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offer	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 offer	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offer	nsubj
8	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offer	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	Dude and what deal	the wolf					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wolf=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

Share a hog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hog	det
3	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	a hog					tree rules

Option 2

Trade his best pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pig	nmod:poss
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 pig	amod
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trade	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	imperative	you not said here	his best pig					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Let him kill his best cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cow	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 cow	amod
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	kill	infinitive	him = he not said here	his best cow					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 4

Give him some corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 corn	det
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	some corn	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient corn=Theme

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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