Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…
no cap, what did Brer Fox tell Rabbit to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: Brer Fox, Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 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. 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | compound |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no cap | Brer Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | no cap | Rabbit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | no cap not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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
drop his tail in the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 drop | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 drop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | imperative | you not said here | his tail | the water | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in water=Destination |
Option 2
stay still
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 1 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
keep his bait in the cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bait | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 keep | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cold | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cold | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | his bait | the cold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bait=Theme in cold=Location | |||
| 2 | bait | his = he | nom bait «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
catch a big fish fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 catch | obj |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 catch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | imperative | you not said here | a big fish | fast property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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