Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Lowkey, what did Uncle Remus hand the little dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, Uncle · What happens: do, hand · To what, where: little dude

This is test 7 · ★ 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	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hand	nsubj
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dude	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dude	amod
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey						tree rules
2	hand	present	Uncle	the little dude					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=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 · ← Mova's choice

A hat and a shiny toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hat	det
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 toy	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toy	det
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toy	amod
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj

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

Option 2

A new hat with a feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hat	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hat	amod
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 feather	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 feather	det
6	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hat	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A braided whip with a red snapper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whip	det
2	braided	braid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 whip	amod
3	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 snapper	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snapper	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 snapper	amod
7	snapper	snapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	braid	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ribbon	det
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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