Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

Lol, what was Bull-frog beggin' for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Bull frog beggin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 beggin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 beggin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beggin	cop
5	Bull	bull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beggin	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Bull	punct
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beggin	compound
8	beggin	beggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 beggin	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	8 beggin	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 beggin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Bull frog beggin					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 · ✓ the right answer

let him off this time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 let	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 let	compound:prt
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 let	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	imperative	you not said here	him = he			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

let him off this time and never catch him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 let	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 let	compound:prt
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 let	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 catch	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 catch	advmod
8	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 let	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	imperative	you not said here	him = he			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not catch	infinitive	you not said here	him = he			again		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

please let him off this one time, Brer Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	please	please	INTJ	_	2 let	discourse
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 let	compound:prt
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 time	nummod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Bear	punct
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bear	compound
10	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 let	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	imperative	you not said here	him = he			time	Brer Bear vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

please let him go free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	please	please	INTJ	_	2 let	discourse
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here					free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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