Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

Yo, what was Brer Rabbit's move when he got caught?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 move	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 move	cop
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Rabbit	compound
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 move	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Rabbit	case
8	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 caught	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	nsubj:pass
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	aux:pass
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 move	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Brer Rabbit's move					tree rules
2	catch	past · passive		Rabbit					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Played dead and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Played	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Played	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle						dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fake laugh and lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laugh	amod
2	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lie	cc
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laugh	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	participle						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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