Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

where'd the bed-cord come from, ya know?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bed cord, ya · What happens: come, know

This is test 11 · ★ 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 come	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cord	det
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cord	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bed	punct
6	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	7 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
10	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the bed cord						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	ya						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

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

the neighbor's barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbor	det
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barn	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 neighbor	case
4	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

from her spare room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	4 room	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 room	nmod:poss
3	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	amod
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

from her own feather bed upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	5 bed	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bed	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bed	amod
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bed	compound
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	5 bed	advmod

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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