Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

Where'd Remus stash the hogs, dude?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Remus · What happens: stash · To what, where: hogs

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 stash	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stash	aux
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stash	nsubj
4	stash	stash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hogs	det
6	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stash	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hogs	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash	would	Remus	the hogs and dude					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hog=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

in a fenced pen in the deep swamp by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 pen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pen	det
3	fenced	fence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pen	amod
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 swamp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 swamp	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 swamp	amod
8	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pen	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swamp	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fence	participle							vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

in a hidden pen far back in the swampy woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 pen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pen	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pen	amod
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 pen	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
9	swampy	swampy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woods	amod
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pen	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in a pen in the swamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 pen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pen	det
3	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 swamp	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swamp	det
6	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pen	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

under the old porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	4 porch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porch	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 porch	amod
4	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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