Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…
bruh, the tar baby, was she even talkin' back?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tar baby · What happens: talkin back
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 568 «Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit gets stuck fast to the Tar-Baby» 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 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 5 baby | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bruh | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 4 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | compound |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talkin | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 baby | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 talkin | aux |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 talkin | nsubj |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 talkin | advmod |
| 10 | talkin | talkin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 talkin | punct |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 talkin | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 talkin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talkin back | past · progressive | the tar baby | 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
nah, she quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 quiet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yep, she talked back a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 talked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 talked | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk back | past | she | a lot | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nope, she ain't sayin' nuthin'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 ai | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ai | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sayin | advmod |
| 6 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 nuthin | punct |
| 8 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sayin | appos |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 nuthin | punct |
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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