Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

What was the consequence for Brer Bear's cranium after the bees attacked it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bees · What happens: be, attack · To what, where: consequence, cranium

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 consequence	det
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 cranium	case
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bear	compound
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cranium	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Bear	case
9	cranium	cranium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 attacked	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bees	det
12	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 attacked	nsubj
13	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consequence	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 attacked	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the consequence				for Brer Bear's cranium	tree rules
2	attack	past	the bees	cranium					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

It turned rather large and tender

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tender	cc
6	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It					large property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It was swollen to an absurd size and kept growing until his hat no longer fit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swollen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swollen	aux:pass
3	swollen	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 size	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 size	det
6	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swollen	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swollen	conj
10	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	until	until	ADP	_	13 hat	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hat	nmod:poss
13	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 growing	advmod
16	fit	fit	PUNCT	_	3 swollen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swell	past · passive	It		to a absurd size result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to size=Result
2	keep	past				tree rules
3	grow	gerund		until his hat	long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It grew extremely round and pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	4 round	advmod
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pink	cc
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 round	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	It					round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It became considerably swollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	4 swollen	advmod
4	swollen	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It						tree rules
2	swell	participle						considerably property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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