Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

ngl, why does Uncle Remus say his hands are white?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, Uncle, hands · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 does	advmod
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 white	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 white	cop
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	ngl		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Uncle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Uncle's hands	white property	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

he got dipped in lye and bleached out by the old folks' soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dipped	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dipped	aux:pass
3	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 lye	case
5	lye	lye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dipped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bleached	cc
7	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dipped	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 bleached	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	14 soap	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 folks	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folks	amod
12	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 soap	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 folks	case
14	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past · passive		he		lye			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in lye=Trajectory
2	bleach out	participle						by the old folks's soap	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he been around too long, bleached out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
2	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 long	cop
3	around	around	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bleached	punct
7	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 long	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 bleached	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle	he					around, long property	tree rules
2	bleach out	participle	he not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

he been around too long and bleached out in the sun and rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bleached	nsubj
2	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bleached	advcl
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 been	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 bleached	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bleached	cc
7	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 bleached	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleached	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rain	cc
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be around	participle	he not said here					around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bleach out	participle	he			the sun and rain		long property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

he spent years out in the cotton sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	2 spent	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
7	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sun	compound
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend out	past	he			the cotton sun	year	out property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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