Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…

What's the trick to the sifter, like how'd they make it hold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, sifter · What happens: be, make, hold · To what, where: trick, sifter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 trick	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sifter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sifter	det
7	sifter	sifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 make	advmod
11	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the trick	to the sifter	tree rules
2	make	present	they	sifter		tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	sifter not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Fill it with sand and glue it with wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fill	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 sand	case
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fill	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 glue	cc
6	glue	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fill	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 glue	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 wax	case
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	imperative	you not said here	it				with sand	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with sand=Instrument
2	glue	present	you not said here	sand				with wax	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with wax=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stuff it with moss and dob it with clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dob	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stuff	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 moss	case
4	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dob	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dob	cc
6	dob	dob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dob	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 clay	case
9	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dob	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff		Stuff						tree rules
2	dob	infinitive	Stuff	moss				with moss; with clay	tree rules

Option 3

Use moss and clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clay	cc
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	moss and clay					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moss=Patient

Option 4

Pack it tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pack	obj
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 Pack	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	imperative	you not said here	it				tight property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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