Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Did Remus laugh at the joke or just sit there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Remus · What happens: laugh, sit · To what, where: joke

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	nsubj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 joke	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 sit	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 sit	advmod
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laugh	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sit	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · do-support	Remus			the joke			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	infinitive	Remus not said here			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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

He stood there, grumblin' and frownin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grumblin	punct
5	grumblin	grumblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 grumblin	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 frownin	cc
8	frownin	frownin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	conj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 frownin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He just sat on the trash-box, sighin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
6	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 trash	punct
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sighin	punct
10	sighin	sighin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 sighin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He			the trash box			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on box=Location

Option 3

He just sat on the crate, sighin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 crate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crate	det
6	crate	crate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sighin	punct
8	sighin	sighin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crate	appos
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 sighin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He			the crate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crate=Location

Option 4

He grinned and joined in, laughin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grinned	nsubj
2	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 joined	cc
4	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grinned	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 joined	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laughin	punct
7	laughin	laughin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grinned	parataxis
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 laughin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join in	past	He not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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