Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

What's the little boy askin' 'bout today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little boy askin · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 askin	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 askin	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 askin	compound
6	askin	askin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 askin	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 askin	punct
9	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 askin	conj
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 askin	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the little boy askin and bout						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

why Possum has no tail hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 has	advmod
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 hair	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hair	compound
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Possum	no tail hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 2

why Possum has no hair left on his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 has	advmod
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 hair	det
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hair	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Possum	no hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	leave	participle		no hair not said here		Possum's tail			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location

Option 3

why Bear planted his trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 planted	advmod
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 planted	nsubj
3	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 trees	nmod:poss
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 planted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	Bear	Bear's trees					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4

why Possum runs so fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 runs	advmod
2	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Possum					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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