Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…
wait, what did the imps keep yelling?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, imps · What happens: wait, keep, yell
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 keep | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 imps | det |
| 6 | imps | imp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | conj |
| 8 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | past · do-support | the imps | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | yell speech: express | gerund | the imps not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
"Pa, what's that?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pa | punct |
| 2 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 that | obj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 that | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Pa | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pa | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pa | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
"Daddy, w'at you brung?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brung | punct |
| 2 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brung | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 w'at | punct |
| 4 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Daddy | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 brung | nsubj |
| 6 | brung | brung | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 brung | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brung | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brung in a quote | gerund | Daddy and w'at | tree rules |
Option 3
"Papa, w'at you bring?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Papa | punct |
| 2 | Papa | Papa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 w'at | punct |
| 4 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Papa | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Papa and w'at | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
"Daddy, what you got?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 got | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Daddy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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