Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

Into what body of water did Brer Bull-frog escape from Brer Bear's axe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Brer frog escape, body

This is exam question 3 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	Into	into	ADP	_	3 body	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 body	det
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 body	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 escape	compound
8	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	flat
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Brer	punct
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 escape	compound
11	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 axe	case
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Bear	compound
14	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 axe	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Bear	case
16	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Brer frog escape		what body of water		from Brer Bear's axe	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=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 · ✓ the right answer

the mill-pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pond	det
2	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pond	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 mill	punct
4	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 creek	det
2	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pond	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bank	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bank	compound
3	bank	bank	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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