Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

Which implement did Brer Fox seize before proceeding to the goober-patch?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: implement, Brer · What happens: do, seize, proceed

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 implement	det
2	implement	implement	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	6 seize	nsubj
5	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 proceeding	mark
8	proceeding	proceed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seize	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 patch	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 patch	det
11	goober	goober	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 patch	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 goober	punct
13	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceeding	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which implement		tree rules
2	seize	present	Brer		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	proceed	gerund	Brer not said here	to the goober patch	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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 heavy walking-stick he kept by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
3	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 walking	punct
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a heavy walking stick					by the door	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

Option 2

a knotty walking-stick from the porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
2	knotty	knotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
3	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 walking	punct
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 porch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 porch	det
8	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

a walking-stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
2	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 walking	punct
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a hickory hoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hoe	det
2	hickory	hickory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hoe	compound
3	hoe	hoe	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.

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