Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

To whom does the little boy address his questions concerning the tails of rabbits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: questions, his · What happens: do, concern, question · To what, where: little boy address, tails

This is exam question 1 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 address	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 address	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 address	compound
7	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 questions	nmod:poss
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 address	obj
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 questions	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tails	det
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rabbits	case
14	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tails	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		the little boy address	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	his questions not said here	the tails of rabbits	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tail=Experiencer
3	question		his = he		nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Miss Meadows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Meadows	compound
2	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Uncle Remus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat

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

Option 4

his father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	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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