Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Real talk, where did Uncle Jeems take his gun?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle Jeems · What happens: take · To what, where: gun

This is test 5 · ★ 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 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 take	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Jeems	compound
7	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gun	nmod:poss
10	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	Uncle Jeems	Jeems's gun					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

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

to the old cemetery to shoot squirrels in the dark with his shotgun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 cemetery	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cemetery	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cemetery	amod
4	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoot	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shoot	mark
6	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shoot	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoot	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 shotgun	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shotgun	nmod:poss
13	shotgun	shotgun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	to-infinitive		squirrels		the dark		to the old cemetery; with his shotgun	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme to cemetery=Destination

Option 2

out to shoot some turkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	out	out	ADV	_	3 shoot	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shoot	mark
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 turkeys	det
5	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	to-infinitive		some turkeys				out property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turkey=Theme

Option 3

to the Harris farm to trap rabbits near the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 farm	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farm	det
3	Harris	Harris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 farm	compound
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trap	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 trap	mark
6	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trap	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 church	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	to-infinitive		rabbits		the church		to the Harris farm	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

hunting graveyard rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rabbits	compound
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hunting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund		graveyard rabbits					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme

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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