Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

so the cow owner cut it open, and the fox was just in there?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cow owner, fox · What happens: cut, be · To what, where: it

This is test 10 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owner	compound
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	obj
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cut	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 there	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 there	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 there	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 there	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 there	case
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cut	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the cow owner	it				open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	is	past	the fox					there property	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

nah, the owner found a bear inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the owner	a bear				inside property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Topic

Option 2

yup, Rabbit told him to look in the maul and then ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 maul	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maul	det
10	maul	maul	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 ran	advmod
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Rabbit	him = he		yup vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here			in the maul	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in maul=Theme
3	run off	past	Rabbit not said here		then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yup, Rabbit told the owner to look in the maul while the dogs barked

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owner	det
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 maul	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maul	det
11	maul	maul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 barked	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dogs	det
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 barked	nsubj:pass
15	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Rabbit	the owner	yup vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	the owner not said here		in the maul	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in maul=Theme
3	bark	participle · passive		the dogs		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yup, Rabbit told him to look in the maul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 maul	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maul	det
10	maul	maul	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Rabbit		him = he			yup vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here					in the maul	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in maul=Theme

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