Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Lowkey, what's in the big basket Remus is totin' down the street?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: Remus totin

This is test 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. 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 totin	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 totin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 totin	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 Remus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Remus	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Remus	amod
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	remus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 totin	compound
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 totin	cop
11	totin	totin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 totin	punct
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 street	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 street	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 totin	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lowkey	Remus totin				down the street	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

Mustard, poke salad, lamb's quarter, and a jar of sweet pickles from the Savannah market

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mustard	punct
3	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quarter	punct
6	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quarter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lamb	case
8	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salad	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jar	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jar	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 pickles	case
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pickles	amod
15	pickles	pickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 jar	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 market	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 market	det
18	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 market	compound
19	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	infinitive	Mustard	salad		the Savannah market		a jar of sweet pickles obl	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent salad=Theme

Option 2

Mustard, cabbage, and turnip greens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cabbage	punct
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mustard	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 greens	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 greens	cc
6	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 greens	compound
7	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mustard	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mustard, poke salad, and lamb's quarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mustard	punct
3	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quarter	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quarter	cc
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quarter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lamb	case
9	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	infinitive	Mustard	salad				lamb's quarter obl	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent salad=Theme

Option 4

Mustard, poke salad, lamb's quarter, and a big pot of fried chicken

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mustard	punct
3	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quarter	punct
6	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quarter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lamb	case
8	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salad	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pot	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pot	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pot	amod
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poke	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 chicken	case
15	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 chicken	amod
16	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	infinitive	Mustard	salad				a big pot of fried chicken obl	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent salad=Theme
2	fry	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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