Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Fr, when did the brother try to slip out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: try, slip out

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 try	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 try	mark
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 try	nsubj
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fr	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 slip	mark
9	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 slip	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	the brother						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	slip out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brother not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

right after the moon went behind the cloud and the owls started hollering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	right	right	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 cloud	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloud	det
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 started	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owls	det
11	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 started	nsubj
12	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	hollering	holler	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the moon	the cloud	right property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind cloud=Location
2	start	past	the owls			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	holler speech: other	gerund	the owls not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

just after the church bell rang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	5 bell	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 bell	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bell	det
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bell	compound
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	nsubj
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the church bell						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

right 'fo the chickens crowed twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	right	right	ADV	_	6 crowed	advmod
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 crowed	punct
3	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 chickens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chickens	det
5	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crowed	obl
6	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 crowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past		twelve				for the chickens; right property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Topic

Option 4

when the roosters first called

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roosters	det
3	roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	nsubj:pass
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 called	advmod
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive		the roosters				first property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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