Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…
idk, did the fox get wrecked or nah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, wreck · To what, where: fox
This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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 | idk | idk | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 idk | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrecked | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 7 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nah | cc |
| 9 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 wrecked | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | wreck | present · passive | the fox | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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
yep, mr. man went off on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | mr. man | on him = he | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, the fox got away clean and went home to rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rest | mark |
| 12 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | past | the fox | away, clean property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the fox not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yep, mr. man went off on him and tied him up even tighter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tied | cc |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tied | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 tied | compound:prt |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 tighter | advmod |
| 14 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 tied | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | mr. man | on him = he | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 2 | tie up | past | mr. man not said here | man | tight property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
yep, rabbit went off on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | rabbit | on him = he | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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