Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…
yo, bruh, did Rabbit really get Fox killed in that cow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: rabbit, get, kill · To what, where: Fox
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 588 «Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox to his death and escapes Miss Fox» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 8 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 8 get | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rabbit | punct |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rabbit | aux |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | advcl |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Fox | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cow | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 cow | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | past · do-support | you not said here | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | imperative | you not said here | Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | participle | Fox not said here | in that cow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
yeah, Rabbit set up Fox in the maul and then ate the beef
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 Fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Fox | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 maul | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maul | det |
| 9 | maul | maul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ate | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 ate | advmod |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beef | det |
| 14 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | eat | past | Rabbit set Fox in the maul | the beef | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Patient |
Option 2
yeah, Rabbit set up Fox in the maul with the cow owner's help and a big knife
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 Fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Fox | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 maul | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maul | det |
| 9 | maul | maul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 help | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 owner | det |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owner | compound |
| 13 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 owner | case |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maul | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knife | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 knife | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knife | amod |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | help | the cow owner | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, Rabbit set up Fox in the maul
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 Fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Fox | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 maul | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maul | det |
| 9 | maul | maul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
nope, Fox set up Rabbit in the pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 6 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Rabbit | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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