Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

So is the tale over, or does Remus still got stuff to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tale, Remus, stuff · What happens: be, do, get, say · To what, where: stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 over	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
5	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 does	cc
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 over	conj
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 does	ccomp
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 got	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tale			over property	tree rules
2	do	present	the tale not said here				tree rules
3	get	past	Remus	stuff	still		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	stuff not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

It keeps goin', he's still talkin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	goin	goin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	',	',	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talkin	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talkin	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 talkin	advmod
8	talkin	talkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	parataxis
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 talkin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	goin					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goin=Theme
2	is a	present	he	talkin			still		tree rules

Option 2

It's over, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 over	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 over	cop
3	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 over	punct
5	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 over	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					over property	tree rules

Option 3

It's done, he's quiet now, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quiet	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quiet	cop
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 done	parataxis
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 done	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		It			now	fam obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	present	he					quiet property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he's still talkin' on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 talkin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talkin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talkin	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 talkin	advmod
6	talkin	talkin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 talkin	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	6 talkin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talkin	present · progressive	he				still		tree rules

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