Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

Ok, why'd the wolf book it into the bushes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: book · To what, where: it, bushes

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 book	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 book	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 book	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 book	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	nsubj
7	book	book	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 book	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bushes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bushes	det
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 book	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 book	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	book	infinitive	the wolf	it		the bushes			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

He heard the old dog bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bark	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bark	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bark	compound
6	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	He	the old dog bark					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bark=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He got scared of patter-rollers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 rollers	case
5	patter	patter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rollers	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 patter	punct
7	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He got scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He feared the hounds and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hounds	det
4	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feared	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 feared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He	the hounds					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus
2	run	past	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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