Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
Yo, what song did Bull-frog sing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: song · What happens: do · To what, where: frog sing
This is test 12 · ★ 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=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Bull | bull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 frog | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bull | punct |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sing | compound |
| 9 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | song | frog sing | tree rules |
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
"My joy"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joy in a quote | My | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"Ingle-go-jang, my joy"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Ingle | Ingle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ingle | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jang | punct |
| 6 | jang | jang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joy | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 joy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | Ingle | jang | my joy obl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | joy in a quote | my | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
"Ingle-go-jang"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Ingle | Ingle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ingle | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jang | punct |
| 6 | jang | jang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | Ingle | jang | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
"Ole-dum-day, my pride"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 2 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ole | punct |
| 4 | dum | dum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 dum | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pride | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pride | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pride | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pride in a quote | my | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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