Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

fr, did Fox really warn him about the haslett?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: fox, warn · To what, where: fr

This is test 8 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fox	aux
4	Fox	fox	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 warn	advmod
6	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Fox	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warn	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 haslett	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 haslett	det
10	haslett	haslett	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warn	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Fox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fox	past · do-support	fr						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	warn speech: warn	infinitive	fr not said here		fr			about the haslett	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about haslett=Topic

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

yup, don't cut round the haslett

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 haslett	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 haslett	det
8	haslett	haslett	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the haslett		yup vocative	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round haslett=Location

Option 2

nah, don't cut in the maul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 maul	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maul	det
8	maul	maul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the maul			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

yup, don't cut round the haslett or the cow will fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 haslett	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 haslett	det
8	haslett	haslett	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 fall	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fall	aux
13	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the haslett		yup vocative	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round haslett=Location
2	fall	future	the cow						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yup, don't cut near the hock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 hock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hock	det
8	hock	hock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the hock		yup vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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