Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
Ngl, how did Bull-frog get away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bull frog · What happens: get away
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 5 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frog | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bull | punct |
| 7 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ngl | parataxis |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | past · do-support | Bull frog | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: 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
dove in the creek bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bed | det |
| 4 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bed | compound |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dove | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
dove down in the mill-pond and swam far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 down | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 swam | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pond | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 mill | punct |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 down | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swam | cc |
| 9 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 swam | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | away, down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
dove deep into the mill-pond and hid there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 7 pond | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pond | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 mill | punct |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dove | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hid | cc |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hid | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | dove into the mill pond | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
dove in the mill-pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pond | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pond | det |
| 4 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pond | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mill | punct |
| 6 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dove | 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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