Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

ngl, what did Brer Rabbit say he was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ngl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brer	flat
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ngl	acl:relcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Brer	ngl					tree rules
2	be	past	Brer						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the swiftest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swiftest	det
2	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 2

the swiftest animal in the whole woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woods	amod
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animal	nmod

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

Option 3

the fastest runner of them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 runner	det
2	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 runner	amod
3	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 runner	nmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

the cleverest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cleverest	det
2	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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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