Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

bruh, did Miss Fox ever catch Rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miss · What happens: fox, catch · To what, where: Rabbit

This is test 12 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 Fox	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Fox	aux
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	nsubj
5	Fox	fox	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 catch	advmod
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Fox	xcomp
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Fox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fox	past · do-support	Miss						tree rules
2	catch	infinitive	Miss not said here	Rabbit			ever		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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

yup, she caught him by the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	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 caught	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nose	det
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	she	him = he				by the nose; yup vocative	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he jumped down and bounced away into the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 jumped	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounced	cc
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jumped	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 bounced	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump down	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bounce away	participle	he not said here			the woods		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination

Option 3

yup, she caught him once but he jumped down and bounced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	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 caught	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 caught	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 jumped	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 jumped	nsubj
9	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 jumped	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bounced	cc
12	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 jumped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	she	him = he	yup vocative; once property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	jump down	past	he			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bounce	participle	he not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he jumped down and bounced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 jumped	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounced	cc
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jumped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump down	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bounce	participle	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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