Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

lol, why'd possum say he played dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: say, play · To what, where: possum, dead · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 possum	punct
5	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 played	nsubj
8	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 played	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		possum					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	past	he	dead					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme

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

cuz he's super ticklish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ticklish	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ticklish	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 ticklish	advmod
5	ticklish	ticklish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	cuz not said here				super, ticklish property	tree rules

Option 2

cuz the dog's bite was super ticklish to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dog	case
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ticklish	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ticklish	cop
7	super	super	ADV	_	8 ticklish	advmod
8	ticklish	ticklish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ticklish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	the dog's bite	dog	super, ticklish property	tree rules
3	bite		the dog			nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

cuz he's super ticklish and can't stand it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ticklish	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ticklish	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ticklish	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 ticklish	advmod
5	ticklish	ticklish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stand	cc
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stand	advmod
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ticklish	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stand	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cuz					super, ticklish property	tree rules
2	not stand	can	cuz not said here	cuz		all			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Destination

Option 4

cuz he's real sleepy now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleepy	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleepy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleepy	amod
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sleepy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cuz				now	sleepy property	tree rules

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