Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

No cap, what was Brer Bear's big problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big problem

This is test 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. 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 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 problem	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 problem	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 problem	cop
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bear	compound
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 problem	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Bear	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 problem	amod
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Brer Bear's big problem					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

He got stung on his tail and his head swelled up big and pink in the sun

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stung	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stung	aux:pass
3	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stung	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swelled	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swelled	nsubj
10	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stung	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 swelled	compound:prt
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swelled	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pink	cc
14	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 big	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past · passive		He				on his tail	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer on tail=Theme
2	swell up	past	his head					in the sun; big property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sun=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His head swelled up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swelled	nsubj
3	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 swelled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell up	past	His head						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

His back got sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 back	nmod:poss
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	His back					sore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

His nose bled out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bled	nsubj
3	bled	bleed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 bled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleed out	participle	His nose						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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