Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

so Rabbit's nose got ground down on the stone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nose · What happens: get down · To what, where: ground, stone

This is test 5 · ★ 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 got	advmod
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nose	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rabbit	case
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past	Rabbit's nose	ground		the stone		down 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 · ← Mova's choice

yup, he got ground to dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dust	mark
7	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	yup	ground					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ground=Beneficiary dust=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he played her and bounced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounced	cc
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	her = she					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	bounce	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yup, it got ground down but he played her and bounced away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 played	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 played	nsubj
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 played	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bounced	cc
12	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 bounced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get down	past	yup	ground	down property	tree rules
2	play	past	he	her = she		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	bounce away	past	yup not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, he played her and bounced off down the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounced	cc
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 bounced	compound:prt
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	her = she					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	bounce off	past	he not said here			the road			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory

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