Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

What saved Bear from choking out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: save, choke out · To what, where: Bear

This is test 10 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 choking	mark
5	choking	choke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saved	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 choking	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past		Bear					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
2	choke out	gerund							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 · ← Mova's choice

a cup of tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ 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 3

a big gourd full of cool water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gourd	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gourd	amod
3	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gourd	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

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

Option 4

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.

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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