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

Why'd Brer Bear plant them trees, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: plant · To what, where: them

This is test 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. 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	5 plant	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 Brer	aux
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 plant	nsubj
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Brer	flat
5	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plant	obj
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plant	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	present	Brer	them = they					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme tree=Destination

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

to get bees to come and buzz around all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buzz	cc
7	buzz	buzz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
8	around	around	ADV	_	7 buzz	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buzz	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 buzz	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		bees			tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	bees not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buzz around	infinitive			day	around, long property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

so bees would come and stay right there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stay	cc
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	bees						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	infinitive	bees not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to get bees to come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		bees					tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	bees not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

for shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 shade	case
2	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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