Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Dang, what's the Savannah dude always braggin' about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dang · What happens: be · To what, where: dude braggin

This is test 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. 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 braggin	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 braggin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 braggin	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 braggin	det
6	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 braggin	nsubj
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 braggin	compound
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 braggin	advmod
9	braggin	braggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dang	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 braggin	punct
11	about	about	ADP	_	9 braggin	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dang	the dude braggin				always property	tree rules

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

Rice-birds and some old oysters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rice	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 oysters	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 oysters	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oysters	amod
7	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 birds	conj

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

Option 2

Rice-birds and shrimp back home, plus his big brass chain and fine coat

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rice	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shrimp	cc
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 home	advmod
7	home	home	ADV	_	5 shrimp	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chain	punct
9	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	13 chain	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chain	nmod:poss
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chain	amod
12	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chain	compound
13	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 coat	cc
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coat	amod
16	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chain	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rice-birds and shrimp back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rice	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shrimp	cc
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 birds	advmod
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 back	advmod

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

Option 4

Rice-birds, shrimp, and how the whole coast beats the rest of Georgia by a mile

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rice	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shrimp	punct
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beats	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beats	cc
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 beats	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coast	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coast	amod
11	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beats	nsubj
12	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 birds	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beats	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Georgia	case
16	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 rest	nmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 mile	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mile	det
19	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	the whole coast	the rest of Georgia				by a mile	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rest=Theme

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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