Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Ay, whose orchard was that, fo' real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: orchard · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	10 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 orchard	nmod:poss
4	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 real	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 real	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
8	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	10 real	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	orchard					real 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

dat ole Brer Bear's, fo' real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bear	det
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	amod
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Bear	compound
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Bear	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Bear	punct
7	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 real	case
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	nmod

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

Option 2

Brer Rabbit's, I reckon, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	compound
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rabbit	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Rabbit	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	I	Brer Rabbit and bro not said here					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rabbit=Attribute

Option 3

Brer Fox's

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	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Fox	case

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Bear's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bear	compound
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Bear	case

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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