Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Finna ask, what did Uncle Remus make at his next visit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finna, Uncle · What happens: ask, do, make, visit · To what, where: next visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Finna	Finna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	ccomp
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Uncle	flat
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 visit	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 visit	nmod:poss
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 visit	amod
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Finna		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past			tree rules
3	make	present	Uncle	Uncle's next visit	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	visit		Uncle		nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

pegs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

shoe-pegs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pegs	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 shoe	punct
3	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

horseshoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	horseshoes	horseshoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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