Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…

Y'all know how the little rabbits got that cane broke?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Y'all, little rabbits, cane · What happens: know, get, break · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Y'all	y'all	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbits	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rabbits	amod
6	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	ccomp
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cane	det
9	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	present	Y'all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get	past	the little rabbits	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	break	past	that cane	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

A bird taught them how to pull hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taught	nsubj
3	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	obj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pull	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pull	mark
7	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taught	xcomp
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	a bird		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pull	to-infinitive	a bird not said here					hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A bird showed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	a bird	them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A little bird sang them a song to show them how

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sang	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 show	obj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	a little bird	them = they					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	a little bird not said here	them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

A crow sang them a tune to help them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tune	det
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sang	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	a crow	them = they					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary tune=Theme
2	help	to-infinitive	a crow not said here	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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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