Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
Yo, what was Brer Rabbit's gig, like how much was he gettin' paid?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: gig, much gettin
This is test 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. 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gig | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gig | cop |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gig | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Rabbit | case |
| 8 | gig | gig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gettin | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 gettin | case |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gettin | amod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gettin | cop |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gettin | nsubj |
| 15 | gettin | gettin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gig | appos |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 gettin | punct |
| 17 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gettin | acl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 gig | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Brer Rabbit's gig | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Rabbit | like much gettin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | participle | much gettin not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
a quarter a minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 quarter | det |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quarter | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a dollar a minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dollar | det |
| 2 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dollar | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a dime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dime | det |
| 2 | dime | dime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a dime a minute for every crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dime | det |
| 2 | dime | dime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minute | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 crow | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 crow | det |
| 7 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minute | nmod |
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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