Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Real talk, what is the glory-crown in the song?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: glory crown, song

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crown	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 crown	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crown	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crown	det
7	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crown	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 glory	punct
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 song	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 song	det
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crown	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real talk	the glory crown		the song			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

A crown for the faithful saints

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crown	det
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 saints	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saints	det
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saints	amod
6	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crown	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A reward for those who stand strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reward	det
2	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 those	case
4	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 reward	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stand	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a reward for those					strong property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A golden crown that the Lord places upon the head of each saint at the end

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 places	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 places	det
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 places	compound
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crown	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 places	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 saint	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 saint	det
13	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saint	nmod

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

Option 4

The crown of thorns that the preacher says every man must bear on his brow

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crown	det
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 thorns	case
4	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crown	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 preacher	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 preacher	det
7	preacher	preacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thorns	acl:relcl
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bear	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bear	aux
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 brow	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brow	nmod:poss
15	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	preacher		thorns			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the crown of thorns			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bear	must	every man		man's brow	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	crown			thorns		nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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