Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

According to the narrative, which individual did the old man carry on his back in an earlier occasion?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: accord, carry · To what, where: narrative, back

This is exam question 3 of lesson 589 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the old man refuses more tales, then offers a ride and a string of sayings and songs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	According	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 did	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 According	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 individual	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 individual	nsubj
7	individual	individual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 narrative	conj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 carry	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	nsubj
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 occasion	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 occasion	det
18	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 occasion	amod
19	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						to the narrative goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to narrative=Goal
2	carry	past · do-support	the old man			man's back		in a earlier occasion	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in occasion=Location

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

Sam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Unk Jeems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unk	Unk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Unk	flat

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

Option 3

Mars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Brer Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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