Test 14 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Real quick, what did the Jack-o'-lantern lead toward?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: lantern lead

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quick	amod
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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 quick	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lead	det
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lead	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 lead	punct
9	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 lead	case
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 lead	punct
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 '	punct
12	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lead	compound
13	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
14	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 lead	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lantern lead					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Eventuality

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 creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 creek	det
2	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the quagmire in the swamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 quagmire	det
2	quagmire	quagmire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 swamp	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swamp	det
5	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quagmire	nmod

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

Option 3

the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the deep bog past the cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bog	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bog	amod
3	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 cane	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cane	det
6	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bog	nmod

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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