Test 10 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

bet, where's the little boy sitting when Miss Sally peeks in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little boy, Miss · What happens: be, sit, peek in · To what, where: little boy

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 567 «Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, part 3: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of a dinner» 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 boy	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bet	appos
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 boy	acl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 peeks	mark
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 peeks	nsubj
11	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Miss	flat
12	peeks	peek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	12 peeks	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the little boy	tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the little boy not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peek in	present	Miss		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

next to the window, looking outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	next	next	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 next	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 next	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						next, outside property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

next to Uncle Remus, head on his arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	next	next	ADV	_	4 Remus	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Remus	case
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	appos
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

beside the old man, leaning on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaning	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund						beside the old man; on man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside man=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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