Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

Dude, what's bimeby mean in the old language?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: bimeby

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bimeby	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 bimeby	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bimeby	cop
5	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 language	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 language	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 language	amod
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dude and bimeby not said here	bimeby					tree rules
2	mean	present	Dude and bimeby					in the old language	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in language=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 · ✓ the right answer

By and by, meaning soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 meaning	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meaning	punct
5	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 meaning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund						soon property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By the river, meaning wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meaning	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 river	punct
5	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meaning	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund						by the river; wet property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bye bye, meaning goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bye	bye	INTJ	_	4 meaning	discourse
2	bye	bye	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Bye	goeswith
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bye	punct
4	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meaning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund		goodbye					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 4

By and by, meaning the day after tomorrow when the work is done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 meaning	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meaning	punct
5	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meaning	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 tomorrow	case
9	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meaning	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux:pass
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meaning	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund					day; tomorrow		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	present · passive		the work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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