Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…
lol, the dogs were the real problem, huh?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: be · To what, where: real problem
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 problem | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dogs | det |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 problem | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 problem | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 problem | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 problem | amod |
| 8 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 huh | punct |
| 10 | huh | huh | INTJ | _ | 8 problem | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 problem | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the dogs | the real problem | 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
yup, Miss Fox sent them after him and they nearly caught him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 caught | advmod |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | yup Miss Fox | them = they | after him = he | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past | they | Fox | nearly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
yup, Miss Fox sent the dogs after him at the spring and the branch
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dogs | det |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 spring | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 branch | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branch | det |
| 15 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spring | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | yup Miss Fox | the dogs | after him = he; spring | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yup, Miss Fox sent them after him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | yup Miss Fox | them = they | after him = he | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4
yup, Miss Fox set them on Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Rabbit | case |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | yup Miss Fox | them = they | on Rabbit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on rabbit=Destination |
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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