Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Who was snitchin' on Possum to Brer Bear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Possum

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 snitchin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snitchin	cop
3	snitchin	snitchin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 snitchin	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Possum	case
6	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snitchin	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Bear	case
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Bear	compound
9	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Possum	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 snitchin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				Possum to Brer Bear		snitchin 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

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 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

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 4

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.

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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