Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

No lie, how did Brer Rabbit look while he waited?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lie · What happens: do, look, wait · To what, where: Brer

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 lie	det
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	parataxis
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brer	flat
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 waited	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 waited	nsubj
11	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		Brer	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Eventuality
2	look	present	no lie		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	wait	past	lie		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Like he was just about to laugh at the whole joke he had planned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	7 laugh	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 about	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 laugh	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 laugh	mark
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 joke	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 joke	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joke	amod
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 planned	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 planned	aux
14	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 joke	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the whole joke		about, laugh property	tree rules
2	plan	past · perfect	he	the whole joke not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Like it was about to happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 about	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 happen	mark
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					about property	tree rules
2	happen	to-infinitive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Like he was pretty happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	5 happy	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					happy, pretty property	tree rules

Option 4

As if he was sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 sleepy	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sleepy	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleepy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	cop
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sleepy property	tree rules

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