Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Through what aperture did Brer Possum effect his escape from the grasp of Brer Bear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aperture · What happens: do, escape, grasp · To what, where: Possum effect, grasp, Brer Bear

This is exam question 4 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	Through	through	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	aperture	aperture	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	6 Possum	compound
6	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 effect	compound
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 escape	nmod:poss
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 grasp	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grasp	det
12	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Bear	case
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bear	compound
15	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grasp	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	aperture	Possum effect aperture's escape	the grasp of Brer Bear	tree rules
2	escape		aperture			nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent
3	grasp			Brer Bear		nom grasp «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

beneath the old wooden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gate	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gate	amod
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

between the rails of the fence near the orchard gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	between	between	ADP	_	3 rails	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rails	det
3	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fence	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rails	nmod
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	compound
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fence	nmod

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

Option 3

by squeezing between the rails of the wooden fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 squeezing	mark
2	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 rails	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rails	det
5	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 squeezing	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 fence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fence	det
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fence	amod
9	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rails	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	gerund						between the rails of the wooden fence	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

between the rails of the fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	between	between	ADP	_	3 rails	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rails	det
3	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fence	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rails	nmod

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

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