Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

Lowkey, how long did Bear say he'd wait for revenge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, Bear · What happens: say, wait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 581 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear takes Rabbit's place on the sapling, gets beaten, then is tricked by Bull-frog» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 say	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wait	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	aux
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 revenge	case
12	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wait	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Lowkey					long property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	would	Bear					for revenge	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a long month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 month	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 month	amod
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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