Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…
Homie, what's quollin' mean in the old talk?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Homie · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: quollin
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | Homie | homie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quollin | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 quollin | advmod |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quollin | cop |
| 5 | quollin | quollin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Homie | appos |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 quollin | punct |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 talk | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 talk | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 talk | amod |
| 11 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | quollin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Homie | in the old talk | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in talk=Attribute |
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
Fighting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Laughing, meaning joking loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meaning | punct |
| 3 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Laughing | advcl |
| 4 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 meaning | ccomp |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joking | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | joke speech: other | gerund | loud property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Whispering, meaning talking low
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meaning | punct |
| 3 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Whispering | advcl |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 meaning | ccomp |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 talking | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | low property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Quarrelling, meaning arguing hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meaning | punct |
| 3 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Quarrelling | acl |
| 4 | arguing | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 meaning | xcomp |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 arguing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | Quarrelling not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree not said to happen | gerund | Quarrelling not said here | hard property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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