Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

yo, so who was the Bad Man in this one?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Bad Man

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 587 «Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the Bad Man and ends up as a light between heaven and earth» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 Man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 Man	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 Man	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Man	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
7	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Man	amod
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Man	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Bad Man				in this one	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

the old fellow with the horns and tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 horns	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horns	det
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fellow	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tail	cc
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horns	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Ole Boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Boy	compound
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the Old Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the gentleman from the fiery pit below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 pit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pit	det
5	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pit	amod
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gentleman	nmod
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 pit	advmod

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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