Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…
Did Rabbit really have a gold-mine, or was he just fibbin'?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: have, be · To what, where: gold mine, fibbin
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Rabbit | aux |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 have | vocative |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mine | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mine | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 gold | punct |
| 8 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fibbin | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 fibbin | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fibbin | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fibbin | nsubj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 fibbin | advmod |
| 14 | fibbin | fibbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | parataxis |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 fibbin | punct |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a gold mine | Rabbit vocative | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Rabbit | fibbin | tree rules |
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 was just fibbin' to fool the Buzzard into carrying him over the river
The tree, 14 words
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 | 4 fibbin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fibbin | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 fibbin | advmod |
| 4 | fibbin | fibbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fibbin | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fool | mark |
| 7 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fibbin | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Buzzard | det |
| 9 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fool | obj |
| 10 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | mark |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fool | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carrying | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | fibbin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fool | to-infinitive | the Buzzard | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=Patient | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | him = he | the river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
Rabbit really did have a gold-mine but he lost it to Buzzard in a card game last year
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 mine | punct |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gold | conj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 lost | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lost | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Buzzard | case |
| 14 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 game | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 game | det |
| 17 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 game | compound |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 year | amod |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · do-support | Rabbit | a gold | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | |||
| 2 | lose | past | Rabbit | gold | Buzzard | a card game | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
He was telling the truth about it
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 | 3 telling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 telling | aux |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telling | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 telling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | He | the truth | about truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about it=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He was just fibbin' to fool the Buzzard
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 | 4 fibbin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fibbin | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 fibbin | advmod |
| 4 | fibbin | fibbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fibbin | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fool | mark |
| 7 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fibbin | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Buzzard | det |
| 9 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fool | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | fibbin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fool | to-infinitive | the Buzzard | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=Patient |
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