Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Which creature was the principal figure who sought fruit from the orchard of Brer Bear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, principal figure · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: principal figure, fruit, orchard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 figure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 figure	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 figure	det
5	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 figure	amod
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sought	nsubj
8	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 figure	acl:relcl
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sought	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 orchard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 orchard	det
12	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sought	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Bear	case
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bear	compound
15	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 orchard	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 figure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which creature	the principal figure					tree rules
2	seek	past	the principal figure	fruit		the orchard of Brer Bear			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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

Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Brer Terrapin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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

Option 3

Brer Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Possum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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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