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

Ole Miss was cryin' so hard she couldn't do what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miss cryin · What happens: be, not do · To what, where: Miss cryin

This is test 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. 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	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Miss	amod
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cryin	compound
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cryin	cop
4	cryin	cryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj:outer
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 cryin	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 do	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Miss cryin					tree rules
2	not do	could	Miss cryin					hard property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

write letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	letters					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 2

cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

read the paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 paper	det
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the paper					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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