Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Ain't no way, what does a witch look like on the road?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: look · To what, where: way

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 way	advmod
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 look	obl
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	aux
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 way	acl:relcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 road	case
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	a witch	no way				like the road	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

big black cat with yellow eyeballs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyeballs	case
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyeballs	amod
6	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cat	nmod

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

Option 2

a big black cat with yellow eyeballs that walks upright along the ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyeballs	case
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyeballs	amod
7	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cat	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 walks	nsubj
9	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cat	acl:relcl
10	upright	upright	ADV	_	9 walks	advmod
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 ditch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ditch	det
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a big black cat with yellow eyeballs			the ditch		upright property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ditch=Trajectory

Option 3

a big gray owl with bright eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 owl	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	amod
3	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owl	compound
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 owl	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a black dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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