Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

What was all that silver stuff in the sitting-room, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: silver stuff, sitting room

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	6 stuff	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuff	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 stuff	det:predet
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 stuff	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	compound
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
9	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fam	punct
13	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		all silver stuff		the sitting room and fam			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

the silver candlesticks and dishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 candlesticks	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 candlesticks	amod
3	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dishes	cc
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 candlesticks	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the big silver tea service set

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 set	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tea	compound
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 service	compound
5	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cups and saucers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 saucers	cc
3	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cups	conj

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

Option 4

silver spoons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoons	amod
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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