Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

yo, who's the dude telling the rabbit story?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: dude, rabbit story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 dude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dude	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dude	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dude	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	compound
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the dude					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the dude not said here	the rabbit story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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

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 2 · ✓ 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 3 · ← Mova's choice

the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

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.

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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