Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

Okay but who's the real hero here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: real hero

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 hero	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hero	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hero	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hero	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hero	amod
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Okay	conj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 hero	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the real hero		here			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 Bear, for sure

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 sure	case
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brer	nmod

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

Option 2

Brer Rabbit, clearly, because he tricked the bear and the man both at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	compound
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tricked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clearly	punct
4	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 Rabbit	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tricked	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 tricked	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	nsubj
8	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tricked	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 man	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bear	conj
14	both	both	ADV	_	8 tricked	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	Brer Rabbit	the bear and the man				both property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient

Option 3

Brer Rabbit, for sure, since he got the honey and avoided the whole trap

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	compound
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sure	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 sure	case
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 honey	det
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 avoided	cc
13	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trap	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trap	amod
16	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 avoided	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Rabbit	the honey					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honey=Stimulus
2	avoid	past	Rabbit not said here	the whole trap					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trap=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Rabbit, obviously

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Brer	advmod

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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