Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Which quality most accurately describes Uncle Remus's response to the teasing of his acquaintances?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Remus · What happens: describe, tease, acquaint · To what, where: quality, acquaintances

This is exam question 4 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 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 describes	advmod
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Remus	compound
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 response	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Remus	case
9	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 teasing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teasing	det
12	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 response	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 acquaintances	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 acquaintances	nmod:poss
15	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 teasing	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present		which quality	accurately property	tree rules
2	tease			Remus's acquaintances		nom teasing «act transitive»: of=patient
3	acquaint		Remus			nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Impassive composure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impassive	impassive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 composure	amod
2	composure	composure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Gentle, cheerful humor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 humor	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gentle	punct
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 humor	amod
4	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Stubborn silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silence	amod
2	silence	silence	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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