Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…

Why'd Rabbit say no to walking, you reckon?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit, you · What happens: say, reckon · To what, where: no, walking · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 walking	case
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reckon	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 reckon	nsubj
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Rabbit	no	walking				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to walking=Recipient
2	reckon	present	you						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

His whole family gets sick when they step in mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gets	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 step	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 step	nsubj
8	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 mud	case
10	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	His whole family					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	step	present	they			mud			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He just doesn't like getting his feet wet

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	5 like	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 like	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 getting	obj
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	gerund	He not said here	his feet				wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His whole family gets chilly when feet get wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chilly	chilly	ADV	_	4 gets	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	advcl
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	His whole family					chilly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	get	present	feet					wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Wet feet are bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feet	amod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wet feet					bad property	tree rules

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