Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…
bro what did rabbit say when he hit the rock, something about "yer come de dus"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit, yer · What happens: say, hit, come · To what, where: rock, de dus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | vocative |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hit | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hit | nsubj |
| 8 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 something | punct |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 rock | conj |
| 13 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 15 | yer | yer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 something | acl |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 dus | compound |
| 18 | dus | dus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dus | punct |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | rabbit | bro vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | rabbit | the rock | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | yer | de dus | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dus=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yep, "stan' fudder, ladies"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 fudder | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stan | punct |
| 4 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fudder | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stan | punct |
| 6 | fudder | fudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladies | punct |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fudder | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ladies | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, "hi ladies"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 ladies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladies | punct |
| 4 | hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 5 ladies | discourse |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladies | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yep, "come on, dus'"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dus | punct |
| 7 | dus | dus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dus | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on in a quote | imperative | you not said here | dus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
yep, "ouch"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 ouch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ouch | punct |
| 4 | ouch | ouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ouch | punct |
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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