Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…

Wait, what was Rabbit yellin' about with the wings and the drop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Rabbit yellin

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yellin	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 yellin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yellin	cop
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yellin	compound
6	yellin	yellin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 yellin	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wings	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wings	det
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drop	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 drop	det
14	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wings	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					with the wings and the drop; about property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		Rabbit yellin					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 · ✓ the right answer

Don't flop your wings or stuff drops out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 flop	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 flop	advmod
3	flop	flop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 drops	advcl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flop	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 stuff	cc
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wings	conj
8	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 drops	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not flop	infinitive · do-support		your wings or stuff					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	drop out	present							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Don't flop your wings or the dung will drop out of you and land on everybody below

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 flop	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 flop	advmod
3	flop	flop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flop	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 drop	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dung	det
8	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drop	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 drop	aux
10	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flop	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 you	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 drop	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 land	cc
15	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flop	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 everybody	case
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 land	obl
18	below	below	ADV	_	17 everybody	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not flop	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your wings		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	drop out	future	the dung	you		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	land	present	you not said here		everybody	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on everybody=Destination

Option 3

Keep your feathers still or you'll fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 feathers	nmod:poss
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	still	still	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your feathers			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
2	fall	future	you						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Don't flop your wings around like that or stuff is going to drop out of you

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 flop	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 flop	advmod
3	flop	flop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flop	obj
6	around	around	ADV	_	3 flop	advmod
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 going	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 flop	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drop	mark
14	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 you	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not flop around	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your wings	around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	go	present · progressive	that			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drop out	to-infinitive	that not said here	you		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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