Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
Bro, where did Bull-frog wanna chill before the axe came down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: axe · What happens: chill, come down
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chill | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | aux |
| 5 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frog | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bull | punct |
| 7 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 chill | dep |
| 9 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 axe | det |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | past · do-support | Bro vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come down | past | the axe | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 big flat rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rock | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rock | amod |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the big flat rock near his family's pond home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rock | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rock | amod |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pond | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 family | case |
| 9 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 home | compound |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the tall dry stump
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stump | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stump | amod |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stump | amod |
| 4 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the mill-pond bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 2 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pond | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 mill | punct |
| 4 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bank | compound |
| 5 | 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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