Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Dang, where did the rabbit go after the gun went off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dang, gun · What happens: go, go off

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gun	det
10	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Dang						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	past	the gun						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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

into the briars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	3 briars	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 briars	det
3	briars	briar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

under a log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 log	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 log	det
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

caperin' on a toom stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	caperin	caperin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 caperin	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
5	toom	toom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stone	compound
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 caperin	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

into the tall grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	4 grass	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	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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