Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Wait, what's Remus mad about with the pie sellers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mad	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mad	compound
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 sellers	case
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 sellers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sellers	det
10	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sellers	compound
11	sellers	seller	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mad	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present						about the pie sellers; mad 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

Sellin' pies when folks are hungry and the young men ain't even workin' hard

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sellin	Sellin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pies	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Sellin	case
3	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hungry	nsubj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 hungry	mark
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hungry	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 workin	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 workin	nsubj
12	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 workin	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 workin	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 workin	advmod
15	workin	workin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hungry	conj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 workin	punct
17	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hungry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sellin's pies					hard, hungry property	tree rules
2	not is a	present	the young men	workin					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sellin' pies when folks are hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sellin	Sellin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pies	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Sellin	case
3	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 hungry	mark
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hungry	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pies	acl

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

Option 3

Sellin' pies on the corner, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sellin	Sellin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pies	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Sellin	case
3	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pies	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	conj

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

Option 4

Sellin' pies for a profit when the whole town is hungry and poor and tired

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sellin	Sellin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pies	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Sellin	case
3	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hungry	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 profit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 profit	det
6	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pies	nmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 hungry	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hungry	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hungry	cop
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 poor	cc
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hungry	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tired	cc
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sellin's pies for a profit	hungry property	tree rules
2	be		Sellin's pies for a profit not said here		tree rules
3	be		Sellin's pies for a profit not said here		tree rules

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