Test 13 · ★ · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…
ok ok, what does "bimeby" mean?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bimeby · What happens: mean
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 9 mean | discourse |
| 2 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 9 mean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 mean | obj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bimeby | punct |
| 7 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bimeby | punct |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | bimeby | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ✓ the right answer
by and by, soon after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 by | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 by | punct |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 by | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 by | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by and by, soon after, in a little while, as things happen
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 while | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 by | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 while | punct |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 while | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 while | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 while | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 while | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 while | amod |
| 11 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | things | while | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
at the same time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a kind of old word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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