Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…
Why's Remus wearin' a red rag under his chin, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Why | case |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wearin | compound |
| 4 | wearin | wearin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | appos |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wearin | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rag | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rag | amod |
| 8 | rag | rag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 chin | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rag | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fam | punct |
| 13 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rag | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Bad tooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tooth | amod |
| 2 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
He's sick, fam
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 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fam | punct |
| 5 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sick | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | sick property | tree rules |
Option 3
He got a bad tooth, for real
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tooth | det |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tooth | amod |
| 5 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 real | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | He | a bad tooth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He got a toothache, real bad
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 toothache | det |
| 4 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bad | punct |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bad | amod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toothache | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | He | a toothache | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toothache=Stimulus |
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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