Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

What did his friends tease him about first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: do, tease · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tease	nsubj
5	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tease	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tease	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	tease	present	his friends	him = he					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

Revival meetings, mules, pigs, and how he ate too much rice at dinner last night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revival	revival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meetings	compound
2	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ate	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mules	punct
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meetings	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pigs	punct
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meetings	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ate	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 ate	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rice	amod
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 dinner	case
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Revival meetings and mules and pigs	much rice		dinner	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient

Option 2

Cotton and mules and hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mules	cc
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cotton	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hens	cc
5	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mules	conj

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

Option 3

Revivals and mules and pigs and the church choir from the Savannah coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revivals	revival	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mules	cc
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Revivals	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pigs	cc
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Revivals	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 choir	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 choir	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choir	compound
9	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revivals	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 coast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coast	det
12	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 coast	compound
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choir	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Revivals and mules and pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revivals	revival	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mules	cc
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Revivals	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pigs	cc
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Revivals	conj

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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