Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit…

how old was the boy listening to this, like bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old boy · What happens: be, listen · To what, where: old boy

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 572 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit tricks Miss Cow into a tree, then Brer Terrapin goes calling» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 boy	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 listening	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 bro	case
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listening	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old boy					tree rules
2	listen	gerund	the old boy not said here					to this; like bro	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=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 · ✓ the right answer

about nine or ten, the bright one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 ten	cc
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nine	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nine	conj

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

Option 2

about eight, the quiet one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eight	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eight	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

about nine or ten, the bright one who sat by the fire every single evening with Uncle Remus

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 ten	cc
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nine	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl:relcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 evening	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 evening	amod
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl:unmarked
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 Remus	case
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Remus	compound
19	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the bright one				evening	by the fire; with Uncle Remus	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

Option 4

maybe twelve, he was the smart one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twelve	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the smart one					tree rules

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