Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Which of the following was the means by which Brer Bear was relieved of choking?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: the, Brer · What happens: follow, be, choke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 means	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	parataxis
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 relieved	obl
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 relieved	nsubj
11	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 relieved	cop
13	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	ccomp
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 choking	mark
15	choking	choke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 relieved	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the	mean property	tree rules
3	is	past	Brer	relieved property	tree rules
4	choke	gerund	Brer not said here		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

a gourd of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gourd	det
2	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gourd	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a cool drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a jug of cider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jug	det
2	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cider	case
4	cider	cider	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jug	nmod

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

Option 4

a sip of sweet tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sip	det
2	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tea	case
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tea	amod
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sip			sweet tea					nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient

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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