Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

Deadass, who strolled by while Mr. Man was gone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stroll, go · To what, where: Deadass

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Deadass	Deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strolled	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 strolled	nsubj
4	strolled	stroll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gone	advcl
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Man	nmod:desc
8	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux:pass
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroll	participle							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · passive		Deadass					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location 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 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Fox, chillin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chillin	punct
4	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	appos
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 chillin	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Brer Possum, sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleepy	punct
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brer	list

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Brer Fox, walking slow and whistling a tune by the creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walking	nsubj
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walking	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 whistling	cc
7	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walking	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tune	det
9	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whistling	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 creek	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creek	det
12	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whistling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	Brer					slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whistle	gerund	Brer not said here	a tune				by the creek	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic

Option 4

Brer Turtle, slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brer	conj

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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