Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…

Which of the following reasons is given by the narrator for the flight of Brer Possum from the contest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: follow, give · To what, where: contest

This is exam question 4 of lesson 585 «Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust: Fox is tied up and beaten, Rabbit wins a wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 given	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 reasons	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reasons	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 reasons	amod
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 given	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux:pass
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 narrator	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 flight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flight	det
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Brer	case
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 flight	nmod
16	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	flat
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 contest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 contest	det
19	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present · passive	the narrator			the contest		of the following reasons; for the flight of Brer	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent which=Theme for flight=Asset

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 was tired

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules

Option 2

He was sick

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 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					sick property	tree rules

Option 3

He said his feet were hurting badly

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	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 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurting	aux
6	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hurting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt	past · progressive	his feet					badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He claimed to have a crick in his neck

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 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 claimed	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crick	det
6	crick	crick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	to-infinitive	He not said here	a crick		his neck			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crick=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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