Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

so like, what did Brer Bear claim he was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: bear · To what, where: claim

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 Bear	advmod
2	like	like	INTJ	_	7 Bear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 Bear	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Bear	aux
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bear	nsubj
7	Bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Bear	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 claim	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Bear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · do-support	Brer	claim					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary claim=Patient

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 toughest and meanest animal around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toughest	det
2	toughest	tough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 animal	cc
4	meanest	mean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 toughest	conj
6	around	around	ADV	_	2 toughest	advmod

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

Option 2

the smartest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smartest	det
2	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the strongest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strongest	det
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 4

the strongest of all the animals here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strongest	det
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 animals	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animals	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strongest	obl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 animals	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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