Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Wait, why was the old man acting so extra about the stories?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old man · What happens: wait, act · To what, where: extra

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 acting	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 acting	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 acting	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acting	nsubj
8	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 extra	advmod
10	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 acting	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 stories	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stories	det
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 extra	obl
14	?	?	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	act	past · progressive	the old man	extra					vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent extra=Eventuality

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

He was just bored

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	4 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said the folks who tell them mix them up

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 folks	det
4	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 folks	acl:relcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mix	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 mix	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	the folks		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent folk=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	the folks		folks = folk	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mix up not said to happen	infinitive	the folks not said here	folks = folk		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was tired

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

He said the mules were waiting in the yard

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mules	det
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waiting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waiting	aux
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	past · progressive	the mules					in the yard	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/589-pg2306-part25/t2/