Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…
Lowkey, who did the climbing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: do · To what, where: climbing
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 climbing | det |
| 6 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Lowkey | the climbing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climbing=Eventuality |
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 Wolf, the fool guy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 guy | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guy | det |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guy | compound |
| 6 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mr. Man's dog, who had been sleeping under the porch the whole afternoon
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Man | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Man | case |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeping | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleeping | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sleeping | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleeping | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sleeping | aux |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 porch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porch | det |
| 12 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeping | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 afternoon | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 afternoon | amod |
| 15 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeping | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · perfect · progressive | Man Mr.'s dog | the porch | afternoon | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Brer Bear, the big dummy
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 | _ | 6 dummy | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dummy | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dummy | amod |
| 6 | dummy | dummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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