Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

To whom did Brer Rabbit address his deceptive invitation regarding the bee-tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: address, regard, invite · To what, where: deceptive invitation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 584 «Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Bear into a bee-tree, then Brer Rabbit is caught in Mr. Man's trap» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 address	aux
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 address	nsubj
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	address	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 invitation	nmod:poss
8	deceptive	deceptive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 invitation	amod
9	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 address	obj
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 bee	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 invitation	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	address	past · do-support	Brer	Brer's deceptive invitation	regard the bee tree	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Destination
2	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	invite		Brer		regard the bee tree	nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=agent regard=obl

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 Brer Fox, who declined it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Brer	case
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 declined	obl
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 declined	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 declined	nsubj
6	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 declined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past		it	Brer				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent to brer=Result

Option 2

To Brer Fox, who politely refused the invitation and walked off down the road

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Brer	case
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 refused	obl
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 refused	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 refused	nsubj
6	politely	politely	ADV	_	7 refused	advmod
7	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 invitation	det
9	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 refused	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walked	cc
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 refused	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 walked	compound:prt
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past		the invitation	Brer			politely property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
2	walk off	past						down the road	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To Brer Bear, who eagerly accepted the offer and climbed right up the tree

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Brer	case
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 accepted	obl
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 accepted	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 accepted	nsubj
6	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	7 accepted	advmod
7	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 offer	det
9	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accepted	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 climbed	cc
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 accepted	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	11 climbed	advmod
13	up	up	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past		the offer	Brer			eagerly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent offer=Theme to brer=be'
2	climb	past				the tree		right property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To Brer Bear, who accepted it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Brer	case
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 accepted	obl
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Brer	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 accepted	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 accepted	nsubj
6	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 accepted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past		it	Brer				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brer=be'

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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