Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…
Who's Uncle Remus talkin' to, anyway?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Remus talkin
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 talkin | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talkin | cop |
| 3 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Remus | compound |
| 4 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talkin | compound |
| 5 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 talkin | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 talkin | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 anyway | punct |
| 9 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 5 talkin | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talkin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Remus talkin | anyway property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the little boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the little girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a stranger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the young farmhand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmhand | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmhand | amod |
| 3 | farmhand | farmhand | 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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