Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…
lowkey, what was Terrapin doin' the whole time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: Terrapin doin
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 doin | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 doin | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 doin | cop |
| 5 | Terrapin | Terrapin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 doin | compound |
| 6 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doin | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 doin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lowkey | Terrapin doin and the whole time | 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
sittin' in a chair stirrin' the pot all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sittin | sittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 sittin | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stirrin | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stirrin | det |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stirrin | compound |
| 6 | stirrin | stirrin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sittin | nmod |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pot | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stirrin | appos |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
rockin' in his chair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rockin | Rockin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 rockin | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chair | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rockin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
rockin' in his chair and watchin' the molasses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rockin | Rockin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 rockin | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chair | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rockin | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watchin | cc |
| 7 | watchin | watchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chair | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 molasses | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 molasses | det |
| 10 | molasses | molass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 watchin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
sittin' by the fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sittin | sittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 sittin | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sittin | nmod |
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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