Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

no cap, Tobe really howled like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: howl

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 howled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 howled	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 howled	advmod
6	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 howled	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 howled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	no cap					like that	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yup, he yelled at the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yelled	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	nsubj
4	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	he					at the pot; yup vocative	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at pot=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, he sot up a howl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sot	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sot	nsubj
4	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sot	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 howl	det
7	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sot up		he						tree rules

Option 3

nah, he just cried a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he	a bit					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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