Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Lowkey scary, what did the boy hear before bed?

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

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 scary	nsubj
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 hear	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	nsubj
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scary	conj
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	the boy				before bed		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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 old man singin' a lusty tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 singin	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 singin	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singin	compound
4	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 singin	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tune	det
7	lusty	lusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tune	amod
8	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singin	appos

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

Option 2

frogs croakin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 croakin	compound
2	croakin	croakin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 croakin	punct

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

Option 3

the mule stompin' in the lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stompin	det
2	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stompin	compound
3	stompin	stompin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 stompin	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stompin	nmod

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

Option 4

a fiddle playin' a reel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 playin	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playin	compound
3	playin	playin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 playin	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reel	det
6	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playin	appos

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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