Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…
did Brer Wolf help or nah, y'all?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Wolf help
This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wolf | compound |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 help | compound |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 y'all | cc |
| 6 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 y'all | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 y'all | punct |
| 8 | y'all | y'all | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Wolf help or y'all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Eventuality |
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
he stayed back and cheered for Bear loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 stayed | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cheered | cc |
| 5 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Bear | case |
| 7 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cheered | obl |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 2 stayed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay back | past | he | loudly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cheer | past | he not said here | for Bear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
he pulled on the rope with all his might
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rope | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rope | det |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulled | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 pulled | obl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 might | nmod:poss |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | he | with all; on the rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on rope=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
helped pull with the others
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 helped | xcomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 others | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 others | det |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pull | infinitive | with the others | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with other=Beneficiary |
Option 4
he ran off into the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | he | into the woods result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
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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