Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Why's Possum's tail all bald now, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tail · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bald	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tail	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Possum	case
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bald	det
7	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bald	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bald	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bald	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Possum's tail					why property	tree rules

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

Bear pulled hair out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	Bear	hair					tree rules

Option 2

Bear tore the fur off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fur	det
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 tore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore off	past	Bear	the fur					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bear yanked the hair out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yanked	nsubj
2	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yanked	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 yanked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yank out	past	Bear	the hair					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 4

Bear yanked the hair out when Possum ran past him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yanked	nsubj
2	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yanked	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 yanked	compound:prt
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ran	advmod
7	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 yanked	advcl
9	past	past	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yank out	past	Bear	the hair					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	run	past	Possum					past Bear	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past he=Trajectory

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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