Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…

Dang, what made Buzzard flap his wings all over the place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Buzzard · What happens: make, flap · To what, where: place, wings

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flap	nsubj
6	flap	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flap	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 place	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past				the place		Dang vocative	tree rules
2	flap	infinitive	Buzzard	Buzzard's wings					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was laughing so hard he shook

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 laughing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 laughing	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shook	nsubj
7	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	He					hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	he						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Rabbit tickled him under the wings and he couldn't stop shaking all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tickled	nsubj
2	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tickled	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 wings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wings	det
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tickled	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stop	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tickled	conj
12	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 over	advmod
14	over	over	ADV	_	12 shaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tickle	past	Rabbit	him = he	the wings		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
2	not stop	could	Rabbit				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	shake	gerund	Rabbit not said here			over property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He was crying so hard he shook

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 crying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 crying	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shook	nsubj
7	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	He					hard property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	he						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was laughing so hard at Rabbit's joke that he couldn't keep still

The tree, 15 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	3 laughing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 laughing	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 joke	case
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 joke	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rabbit	case
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughing	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 keep	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keep	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 keep	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 keep	advmod
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laughing	advcl
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	He	Rabbit's joke		hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not keep	could	Rabbit		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	joke		Rabbit				nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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