Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…
fr fam, the fox fumbled three times and got nothing, that's an L
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, that · What happens: fumble, get, be · To what, where: fr fam, nothing, L
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fam | compound |
| 2 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fumbled | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fumbled | nsubj |
| 6 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fam | acl:relcl |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fumbled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fumbled | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 L | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 L | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 L | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 L | det |
| 16 | L | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fam | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fumble | past | the fox | fr fam and a L not said here | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | the fox not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a L | tree rules |
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
no cap, lame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lame | punct |
| 4 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cap | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
massive L
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 L | amod |
| 2 | L | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
fr, the fox fumbled three times and never got a single drop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fumbled | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fumbled | nsubj |
| 5 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fumbled | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fumbled | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drop | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drop | amod |
| 13 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fumble | past | the fox | fr | time | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not get | past | the fox not said here | a single drop | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus |
Option 4
pure fail fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fr | amod |
| 2 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fr | compound |
| 3 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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