Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

wait, Miss Fox cooked her husband's head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Miss · What happens: wait, cook · To what, where: head

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cooked	punct
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	nsubj
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Miss	flat
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 husband	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cook	past	Miss	Miss's husband's head					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

fr, she thought it was beef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beef	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beef	cop
7	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she	fr					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	fr	beef					tree rules

Option 2

fr, she did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she					fr vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, it was pork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pork	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pork	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pork	cop
5	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	pork					tree rules

Option 4

fr, she served it to Tobe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 served	nsubj
4	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 served	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Tobe	case
7	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 served	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past	she	fr	Tobe				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tobe=Recipient

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