Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

Bussin', how did the brother feel when the salt got on him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, salt · What happens: feel, get

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bussin	Bussin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nmod:poss
2	',	',	PART	_	1 Bussin	case
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 salt	det
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the brother						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	the salt					on brother	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on he=Source

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

like fire on a cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	2 fire	discourse
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cut	det
5	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	nmod

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

Option 2

like hot coals on bare skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 coals	case
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coals	amod
3	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coals	nmod

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

Option 3

like a bee sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 sting	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sting	det
3	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sting	compound
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

worse than yellerjacket stings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 stings	case
3	yellerjacket	yellerjacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stings	compound
4	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 worse	obl

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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