Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

What did Miss Sally stare at while the soldiers talked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miss, soldiers · What happens: do, stare, talk

This is test 12 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stare	nsubj
4	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Miss	flat
5	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 talked	mark
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 talked	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldiers	det
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talked	nsubj
10	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stare	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	stare	present	Miss	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	talk	participle	the soldiers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 on the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 silver	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 silver	nmod

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

Option 2

the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the Yankee officers' bright swords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 officers	det
2	Yankee	yankee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 officers	amod
3	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swords	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 officers	case
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swords	amod
6	swords	sword	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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