Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

No cap, what did Rabbit yell at Fox to hit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: yell, hit

This is test 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. 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yell	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 yell	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yell	aux
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yell	nsubj
7	yell	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Fox	case
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yell	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hit	mark
11	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 yell	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 yell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · do-support	no cap					at Fox	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent what=Theme at fox=Stimulus
2	hit	to-infinitive	no cap not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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

"Bite 'im in de tail!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bite	punct
2	Bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bite	punct
4	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Bite	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tail	case
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 tail	compound
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 im	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bite	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bite	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Hit 'im in de mouf!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
2	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
4	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Hit	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouf	case
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 mouf	compound
7	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hit	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	im		de mouf			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent im=Theme in mouf=Destination

Option 3

"Hit 'im in de mouf an' don't let go!"

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
2	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
4	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Hit	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouf	case
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 mouf	compound
7	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hit	obl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 let	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Hit	conj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	im	de mouf	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent im=Theme in mouf=Destination
2	not let in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you not said here			tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

"Hit 'im hard in de mouf, Brer Fox, hit 'im now!"

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
2	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
4	im	im	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Hit	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouf	case
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 mouf	compound
8	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Fox	punct
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Fox	compound
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hit	punct
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hit	advcl
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 im	punct
15	im	im	ADV	_	16 now	advmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 hit	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Brer Fox				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit in a quote	past	you not said here				now		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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