Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

fr, what did Bear say they were lackin'?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bear, they · What happens: say, lackin · To what, where: fr · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 fr	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lackin	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lackin	aux
9	lackin	lackin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 lackin	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Bear	fr					tree rules
2	lackin	past · progressive	they						tree rules

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 sturdy wagon wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wheel	det
2	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wheel	amod
3	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wheel	compound
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a good strong rope to tie them together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rope	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rope	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rope	amod
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tie	mark
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rope	acl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tie	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 tie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	to-infinitive		them = they				together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a good strong rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rope	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rope	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rope	amod
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a big strong rope long enough to reach across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rope	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rope	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rope	amod
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 rope	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rope	acl
9	across	across	ADV	_	8 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	to-infinitive						across property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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