Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…
So how'd Rabbit get back home, for real?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: get back
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 home | advmod |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 real | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 real | case |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | would | Rabbit | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Buzzard took him home because they split things fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | 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 took | obj |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 split | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 split | nsubj |
| 7 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 split | obj |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 split | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Buzzard | him = he | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | split | past | they | things | fair property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
Option 2
He swam back after they split the gold
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 | 2 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 swam | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 split | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 split | nsubj |
| 6 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 split | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim back | past | He | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | split | past | they | the gold | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Buzzard carried him back home since they had agreed to split everything fairly between them both
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | 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 carried | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 agreed | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 agreed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 agreed | aux |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 carried | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 split | mark |
| 11 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 agreed | xcomp |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 split | obj |
| 13 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 11 split | advmod |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 split | obl |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 them | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | past | Buzzard | him = he | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | split not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | everything | between them = they; fairly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Buzzard carried him back since they had to split things fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | 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 carried | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 split | mark |
| 9 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 split | obj |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 split | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | past | Buzzard | him = he | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | split | to-infinitive | they not said here | things | fair property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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