Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…
Bruh, what did Bear ask Brer Frog?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ask · To what, where: Brer Frog
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 6 ask | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 ask | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ask | aux |
| 5 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | compound |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Frog | compound |
| 8 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | Brer Frog | 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
"Is you seed Brer Rabbit go by here today?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seed | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seed | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seed | nsubj |
| 4 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seed | appos |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 here | case |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | seed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | seed | today | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by here=Location |
Option 2
"Where's Rabbit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Rabbit | where property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Is you seed Brer Rabbit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seed | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seed | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seed | nsubj |
| 4 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seed | appos |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | seed | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
"Seen Rabbit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seen | punct |
| 2 | Seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Seen | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seen | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | participle | Rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
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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