Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

Bro, why did Mr. Man come after Brer Rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man · What happens: come

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Man	nmod:desc
6	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	acl:relcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 Rabbit	case
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rabbit	compound
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	Man Mr.				after Brer Rabbit		vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Rabbit ate his beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beans	nmod:poss
4	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Rabbit	Rabbit's beans					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient

Option 2

He stole

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	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Rabbit crept into Mr. Man's field at night and chewed up his best greens

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 field	case
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Man	nmod:desc
5	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 field	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Man	case
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chewed	cc
11	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crept	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 chewed	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 greens	nmod:poss
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 greens	amod
15	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	Rabbit	Rabbit's best greens		Man Mr.'s field	night		tree rules
2	chew up	participle	Rabbit not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rabbit ate his greens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 greens	nmod:poss
4	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Rabbit	Rabbit's greens					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Patient

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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