Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

Real talk, what's the lesson of the bee story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: lesson

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lesson	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 lesson	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lesson	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lesson	det
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	compound
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lesson	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real talk	the lesson				of the bee story	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

Honey is sweet food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	cop
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Honey	sweet food					tree rules

Option 2

Lazy folks get trapped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trapped	nsubj:pass
3	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trapped	aux:pass
4	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	present · passive		Lazy folks					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Greedy folks get stung

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stung	nsubj:pass
3	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stung	aux:pass
4	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present · passive		Greedy folks					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

Tricks get you hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 get	obj
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Tricks	you					tree rules
2	hurt	participle	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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