Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Which phrase best describes the attitude of the Savannah servant toward those not born on the rice-growing coast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: describe, not bear, grow · To what, where: attitude, growing coast

This is exam question 1 of lesson 594 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30: a proud coast servant brags, Remus teases back, then a toothache sends him grumbling to the office» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attitude	det
6	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 servant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
9	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 servant	compound
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attitude	nmod
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 those	case
12	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 servant	nmod
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 born	advmod
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 those	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	20 coast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coast	det
17	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 growing	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 rice	punct
19	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 coast	amod
20	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 born	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase	the attitude of the Savannah servant toward those		well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent attitude=Theme
2	not bear	participle			the growing coast		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Quiet respect and envy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 respect	amod
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 envy	cc
4	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	conj

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

Option 2

Mild interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 interest	amod
2	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Plain scorn and pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 scorn	amod
2	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pride	cc
4	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scorn	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Undisguised contempt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Undisguised	undisguised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 contempt	amod
2	contempt	contempt	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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