Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

Mars Jeems was hella sad at leavin', so what he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mars · What happens: be, do · To what, where: leavin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	hella	hella	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	amod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 leavin	case
7	leavin	leavin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sad	obl
8	',	',	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mars			leavin		sad property	tree rules
2	do	infinitive	Mars						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

shook Remus's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Remus	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		Remus's hand					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

hugged Remus and wept on his shoulder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 hugged	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wept	cc
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hugged	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 shoulder	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoulder	nmod:poss
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past		Remus					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Co-Agent
2	weep	past				Remus's shoulder			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Destination

Option 3

tipped his hat slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hat	nmod:poss
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tipped	obj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 tipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	past		his hat				slowly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

squeezed Remus's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Remus	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 squeezed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past		Remus's hand					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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