Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…
Who planted the goober patch, like for real?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: plant · To what, where: goober patch
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 planted | nsubj |
| 2 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 patch | det |
| 4 | goober | goober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 patch | compound |
| 5 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 planted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 real | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 planted | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 planted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past | the goober patch | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Brer Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Brer Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brer Buzzard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/580-pg2306-part16/t12/