Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
What period of time did Brer Bear vow to wait before retaliating against Brer Bull-frog?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: bear, wait, retaliate · To what, where: vow
This is exam question 4 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 Bear | obl |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Bear | aux |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bear | nsubj |
| 7 | Bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Bear | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wait | mark |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Bear | xcomp |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 retaliating | mark |
| 12 | retaliating | retaliate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wait | advcl |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 frog | case |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 frog | compound |
| 15 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frog | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bull | punct |
| 17 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retaliating | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · do-support | Brer | vow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | Brer not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | retaliate | gerund | Brer not said here | against Brer Bull frog | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against frog=Maleficiary |
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
one year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
two years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
one whole year and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 day | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
until the next harvest season came around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 season | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 season | amod |
| 4 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 season | compound |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come around | past | the next harvest season | around property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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/e4/