Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Which statement best reflects Uncle Remus's view of work and food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement, Uncle Remus · What happens: reflect, view · To what, where: view, work

This is exam question 2 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 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflects	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 statement	advmod
4	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Remus	compound
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 view	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Remus	case
8	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflects	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 view	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 food	cc
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reflects	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	which statement	Uncle Remus's view of work and food					tree rules
2	view		Uncle Remus	work and food					nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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

Food unearned belongs to another man, and a lazy man should starve for his pride

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	nsubj
2	unearned	unearned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Food	amod
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starve	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 starve	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starve	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 starve	aux
13	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 belongs	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 pride	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pride	nmod:poss
16	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	belong	present	Food	to another man	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	starve	should	a lazy man	for man's pride	tree rules
3	pride		man		nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Idle hands should not eat at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	should	Idle hands			all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Food unearned belongs to another man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	nsubj
2	unearned	unearned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Food	amod
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	Food					to another man	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Men who do not work for their food are thieves, and the rice planter owns their share

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thieves	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 work	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Men	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 food	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thieves	cop
10	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 owns	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 owns	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 planter	det
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 planter	compound
15	planter	planter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owns	nsubj
16	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thieves	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 share	nmod:poss
18	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Men		for Men's food	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for food=Beneficiary
2	is a	present	Men	thieves		tree rules
3	own	present	the rice planter	Men's share		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot share=Theme
4	share		Men = man			nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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