Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Dude, who was starvin' like a tater in this one?

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

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starvin	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starvin	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 starvin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 starvin	aux
5	starvin	starvin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 starvin	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 tater	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tater	det
9	tater	tater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starvin	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tater	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 starvin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starvin	past · progressive	Dude					like a tater in this one	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

Brer Terrapin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brer Possum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat

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

Option 3

Brer Possum, dat ole fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
4	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fool	det
5	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fool	amod
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	appos

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

Option 4

dat hongry ole Brer Possum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dat	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Possum	nsubj
2	hongry	hongry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Possum	amod
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Possum	amod
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Possum	compound
5	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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