Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

Wait, what fruit was Possum straight-up beggin' for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, fruit · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Possum

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Wait	obl
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Possum	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Possum	cop
6	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 beggin	compound
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 Possum	compound:prt
10	beggin	beggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 beggin	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	3 what	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	fruit	Possum					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

'simmons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 simmons	punct
2	simmons	simmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

them ripe 'simmons off de tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 simmons	nsubj
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 simmons	amod
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 simmons	punct
4	simmons	simmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 simmons	nmod

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

Option 3

dem sweet wild 'simmons, fo' sho

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 simmons	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 simmons	amod
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 simmons	punct
5	simmons	simmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dem	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sho	punct
7	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 sho	case
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 sho	punct
9	sho	sho	NOUN	_	1 dem	conj

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

Option 4

peaches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peaches	peach	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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