Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…
Real talk, what snack did the rabbit's crew scarf down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: snack · What happens: do · To what, where: Real talk
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | obj |
| 5 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbit | det |
| 8 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scarf | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 rabbit | case |
| 10 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scarf | compound |
| 11 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | snack | Real talk | down 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 · ✓ the right answer
Fried beef and onions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beef | amod |
| 2 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 onions | cc |
| 4 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beef | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Fried beef, onions, and sweet potatoes from the garden, real good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beef | amod |
| 2 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 onions | punct |
| 4 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beef | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 potatoes | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 potatoes | cc |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 potatoes | amod |
| 8 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beef | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 potatoes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 good | amod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beef | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Fried beef and onions with a big pot of biscuits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beef | amod |
| 2 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 onions | cc |
| 4 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beef | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pot | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pot | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pot | amod |
| 8 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beef | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 biscuits | case |
| 10 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pot | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Roast pork and greens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roast | roast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roast | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 greens | cc |
| 4 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pork | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | imperative | you not said here | pork and greens | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pork=Patient |
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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