Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…
nah the girls giggling at rabbit's slippers was lowkey savage
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: giggle, be · To what, where: slippers, lowkey savage
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 girls | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 savage | nsubj |
| 4 | giggling | giggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 girls | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 slippers | case |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 rabbit | case |
| 8 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 giggling | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 savage | cop |
| 10 | lowkey | lowkey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 savage | amod |
| 11 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giggle | gerund | the girls not said here | rabbit's slippers | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the girls | lowkey savage | 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
bro, they were lowkey chill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chill | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bro | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chill | cop |
| 5 | lowkey | lowkey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chill | amod |
| 6 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | lowkey chill | bro vocative | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
ngl yeah, it was deadass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 deadass | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deadass | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deadass | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deadass | cop |
| 6 | deadass | deadas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ngl | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | deadass | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah it was lowkey not savage, the girls were just happy to see him
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 savage | discourse |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 savage | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 savage | cop |
| 4 | lowkey | lowkey | ADV | _ | 6 savage | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 savage | advmod |
| 6 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girls | det |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 happy | advmod |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 savage | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 happy | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | it | lowkey, savage property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the girls | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 4
nah, they were just being nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nice | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 nice | advmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 nice | cop |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | nice property | tree rules |
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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