Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

What instruction does Brer Fox give Brer Rabbit regarding the duration of his fishing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instruction, Brer · What happens: fox, give, regard, fish · To what, where: Brer

This is exam question 3 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Fox	aux
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	nsubj
5	Fox	fox	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Fox	xcomp
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	flat
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 duration	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duration	det
11	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fishing	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fishing	nmod:poss
14	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 duration	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Fox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fox	present · do-support	what instruction			tree rules
2	give	infinitive	what instruction not said here	Brer	regard the duration of Brer's fishing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fish		Brer			nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

to remain until daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 remain	mark
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	4 daylight	case
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive					until daylight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

to remain at the creek until the sun comes up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 remain	mark
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 creek	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creek	det
5	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remain	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remain	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive				the creek			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at creek=Location
2	come up	present	the sun						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

to return before the dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dawn	det
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive					dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

to stay out till midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stay	mark
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stay	compound:prt
4	till	till	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out	to-infinitive					midnight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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