Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

why was everybody at Miss Meadows' place, y'all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everybody · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 why	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 place	case
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 place	compound
6	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 place	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 Meadows	case
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everybody	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 y'all	punct
10	y'all	y'all	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	everybody					why 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

to help Miss Meadows cook all the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cook	advcl
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 help	obj
4	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cook	nsubj
5	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 food	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive	Meadows not said here		Miss				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Beneficiary
2	cook	present	Meadows	all food					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

for a candy-pullin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	5 pullin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pullin	det
3	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pullin	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 candy	punct
5	pullin	pullin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 pullin	punct

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

Option 3

for a candy-pullin' and a fiddle dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	5 pullin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pullin	det
3	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pullin	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 candy	punct
5	pullin	pullin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 pullin	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dance	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dance	det
9	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dance	compound
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pullin	conj

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

Option 4

for a corn shuckin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 shuckin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shuckin	det
3	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shuckin	compound
4	shuckin	shuckin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 shuckin	punct

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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