Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Lowkey confused, what does that rain-crow thing mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, crow thing · What happens: confuse, mean

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 confused	nsubj
2	confused	confuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 mean	obj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	aux
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 thing	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crow	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 rain	punct
9	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mean	nsubj
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 confused	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 confused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	past	Lowkey						vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	mean	present · do-support	that crow thing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

It means it will rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rain	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rain	aux
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	rain	future	it						tree rules

Option 2

It rains when the rain-crow sings loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rains	nsubj
2	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 sings	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crow	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crow	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rain	punct
7	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sings	nsubj
8	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rains	advcl
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sings	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	sing speech: express	present	the rain crow					loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You can count on it even if it don't sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 count	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 count	aux
3	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 count	obl
6	even	even	ADV	_	11 sing	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 sing	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sing	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sing	advmod
11	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 count	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	can	You					on it	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on it=Theme
2	not sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Don't trust the bird when it's quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 trust	advmod
3	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trust	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 quiet	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 quiet	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quiet	cop
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trust	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the bird					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	is	present	bird					quiet property	tree rules

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