Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…

so miss meadows said she's not gonna keep no tavvum, is that the tea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, meadows, she · What happens: miss, say, not be, be · To what, where: tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 585 «Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust: Fox is tied up and beaten, Rabbit wins a wife» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 miss	advmod
2	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 miss	ccomp
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 keep	advmod
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 keep	dep
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 tavvum	det
11	tavvum	tavvum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tea	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tea	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tea	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tea	det
16	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 miss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	imperative	you not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	meadows			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	present	she		keep property	tree rules
4	is a	present		the tea		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

nah bro, she said she's gonna keep tavvum for the next dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 bro	discourse
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bro	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	cop
8	gonna	gonna	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	tavvum	tavvum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 dance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dance	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dance	amod
14	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	she					for the next dance; keep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah bro, that's the tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 bro	discourse
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tea	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 tea	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tea	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tea	det
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bro	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the tea					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, she said no more tavvum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 tavvum	amod
7	tavvum	tavvum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	more tavvum					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tavvum=Topic

Option 4

nah, she said she wants a bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bag	det
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	she	a bag					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bag=Theme

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