Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

was the creek cold that night, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creek · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cold	det
3	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 night	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	creek				night	cold property	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 · ✓ the right answer

the wedder wuz sorter col'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 col	det
2	wedder	wed	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 col	amod
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 col	compound
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 col	compound
5	col	col	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 col	punct

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

Option 2

nah, it was warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	cop
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					warm property	tree rules

Option 3

de night wuz dark an' de wind wuz blowin' hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 night	compound
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	compound
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blowin	nsubj
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blowin	amod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blowin	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 blowin	punct
7	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wind	compound
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wuz	compound
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blowin	compound
10	blowin	blowin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 blowin	punct
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 blowin	advmod

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

Option 4

the frost was on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frost	det
2	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ground	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ground	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the frost			the ground			tree rules

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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