Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Ngl, what's the saying about the possum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: saying

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 saying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saying	det
6	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 possum	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 possum	det
9	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ngl	the saying				about the possum	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

Possum keeps his own counsel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 counsel	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 counsel	amod
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Possum	Possum's own counsel					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme

Option 2

Possum climbs well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbs	nsubj
2	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 climbs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Possum					well property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Possum hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Possum						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Possum's tail good as a paw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tail	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Possum	case
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	nsubj
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 paw	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 paw	det
7	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	obl

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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