Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

bruh, what did Brer Rabbit lose in the creek?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: creek

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lose	nsubj
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brer	flat
7	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 creek	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creek	det
10	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	lose	present	Brer			the creek			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in creek=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

his long bushy tail in the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tail	amod
3	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tail	amod
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 creek	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creek	det
7	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his long bushy tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tail	amod
3	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tail	amod
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

his best red hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hat	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 hat	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hat	amod
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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