Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

What did the visiting soldier remark regarding the object resting upon the narrator's implement?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, visit, regard, rest · To what, where: visiting soldier remark, implement

This is exam question 3 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 remark	det
4	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 remark	amod
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remark	compound
6	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 object	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remark	nmod
10	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 object	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 implement	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrator	det
13	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 implement	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 narrator	case
15	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resting	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the visiting soldier remark		regard the object	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Eventuality
2	visit	gerund					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rest	gerund	the object not said here		the narrator's implement		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon implement=Location

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 resembled the blood of some animal

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 resembled	nsubj
2	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blood	det
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resembled	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 animal	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	past	It	the blood of some animal					tree rules

Option 2

It was red

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It resembled blood

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 resembled	nsubj
2	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resembled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	past	It	blood					tree rules

Option 4

It looked like rust

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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 rust	case
4	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	It					like rust	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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