Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

Dang, why'd Remus grab Mars Jeems's rifle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Remus · What happens: grab · To what, where: rifle

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dang	dang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grab	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grab	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Remus	punct
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grab	nsubj
6	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dang	parataxis
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rifle	nmod:poss
8	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mars	flat
9	's	's	PART	_	7 Mars	case
10	rifle	rifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grab	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	infinitive	Remus	Mars's rifle					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rifle=Theme

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

to shoot any soldiers near the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 shoot	mark
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	to-infinitive		any soldiers		the gate			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme near gate=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to look after his stock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 stock	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stock	nmod:poss
5	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive					after his stock		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	stock		his = he						nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

to guard the mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 guard	mark
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mule	det
4	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive			the mule				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Beneficiary

Option 4

to kill a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		a snake					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme

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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