Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

Did Uncle Remus tell more tales that night, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: tell · To what, where: more tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 570 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer Fox to Miss Meadows's and hitches him to the rack» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Remus	aux
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 tales	amod
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Uncle Remus	more tales			night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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

He said there's more, honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 more	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 more	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honey	punct
7	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				there		more property	tree rules

Option 2

He said that's not all, honey, there's a whole lot more to come

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 all	det
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 honey	det
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honey	punct
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lot	amod
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl:unmarked
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 's	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 more	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	all honey		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent honey=Topic
2	be	present	more		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	more not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He said that's not all, honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 all	det
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 honey	det
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	all honey					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent honey=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He said that's not all, honey, and then he started another story about the fox

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 all	det
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 honey	det
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honey	punct
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 started	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 started	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 started	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 started	nsubj
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 story	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 started	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 fox	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fox	det
18	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	all honey					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent honey=Topic
2	start	past	he	another story			then	about the fox	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality

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