Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Bruh, what did Uncle Remus say was tangled in Cholly's mane?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, tangle · To what, where: Uncle Remus, mane

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Remus	compound
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tangled	aux:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tangled	aux:pass
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 mane	case
11	Cholly	Cholly	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mane	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Cholly	case
13	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tangled	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tangled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Uncle Remus					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Eventuality
2	tangle	present · passive				Cholly's mane			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

tangled burrs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 burrs	amod
2	burrs	burr	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

burrs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burrs	burr	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

mud clots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clots	compound
2	clots	clot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

witch-stirrups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stirrups	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 witch	punct
3	stirrups	stirrup	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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