Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…
Hey, so Buzzard offered to tote Rabbit over the river, huh?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Buzzard · What happens: offer, tote · To what, where: Rabbit, river
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 580 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit tricks Buzzard into carrying him home from the island» 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 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 5 offered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hey | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 offered | advmod |
| 4 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | nsubj |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tote | mark |
| 7 | tote | tote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 offered | xcomp |
| 8 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tote | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tote | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 huh | punct |
| 13 | huh | huh | INTJ | _ | 5 offered | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | Buzzard | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tote not said to happen | to-infinitive | Buzzard not said here | Rabbit | the river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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
Nope, to a barn across the creek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 barn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 barn | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 barn | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 barn | det |
| 5 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 creek | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 creek | det |
| 8 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barn | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, to a gold-mine on the far side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 mine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mine | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mine | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 gold | punct |
| 7 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, to a farm on the far bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 farm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 farm | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 farm | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farm | det |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bank | amod |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 farm | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, to a gold-mine on the far side that Rabbit claims he owns
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 mine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mine | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mine | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 gold | punct |
| 7 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 claims | obj |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 claims | nsubj |
| 14 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 side | acl:relcl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owns | nsubj |
| 16 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 claims | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | Rabbit | the far side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | own | present | Rabbit | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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