Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Where'd Possum get loose from Bear's grip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Possum, Bear · What happens: get, grip

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 grip	case
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grip	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Bear	case
9	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loose	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Possum					loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	grip		Bear						nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

through the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

between the fence rails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

across the back fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	4 fence	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fence	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fence	compound
4	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

through the barn door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	4 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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