Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
What sum did Brer Rabbit state he earned per minute while keeping crows from the pea patch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: do, earn, keep · To what, where: Rabbit state, crows, pea patch
This is exam question 1 of lesson 581 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear takes Rabbit's place on the sapling, gets beaten, then is tricked by Bull-frog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | compound |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 state | compound |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 earned | nsubj |
| 8 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | per | per | ADP | _ | 10 minute | case |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 earned | obl |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 keeping | mark |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 earned | advcl |
| 13 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keeping | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 patch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 patch | det |
| 16 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 patch | compound |
| 17 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeping | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what sum | Rabbit state | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | earn | past | sum | minute | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | sum not said here | crows | the pea patch | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer crow=Beneficiary from patch=Eventuality |
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
one quarter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 quarter | nummod |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ten cents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 cents | nummod |
| 2 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
one dollar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dollar | nummod |
| 2 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a nickel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nickel | det |
| 2 | nickel | nickel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/581-pg2306-part17/e1/