Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

State the identity the stranger ascribed to the narrator upon their meeting.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, ascribe · To what, where: identity, stranger

This is exam question 3 of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 identity	det
3	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
6	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stranger	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 narrator	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 narrator	det
9	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribed	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 meeting	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 meeting	nmod:poss
12	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 narrator	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the identity					tree rules
2	ascribe	participle		the stranger not said here				to the narrator upon their meeting	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

Daddy Ben, a figure well known from Charleston and the old plantation roads of Georgia

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Daddy	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 figure	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 figure	det
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Daddy	appos
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 known	advmod
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 figure	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Charleston	case
9	Charleston	Charleston	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 known	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 roads	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roads	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 roads	amod
13	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roads	compound
14	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Daddy	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Georgia	case
16	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 roads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	participle		a figure not said here		Charleston		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Daddy Ben, a figure known from Charleston and Savannah during the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Daddy	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 figure	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 figure	det
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Daddy	appos
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 figure	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Charleston	case
8	Charleston	Charleston	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 known	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Savannah	cc
10	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Charleston	conj
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 war	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 war	det
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 known	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	participle		a figure not said here		Charleston and Savannah	during the war		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Uncle Remus, a friend from Savannah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remus	compound
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friend	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remus	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Savannah	case
7	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 friend	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Daddy Ben, a figure known from Charleston

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Daddy	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 figure	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 figure	det
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Daddy	appos
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 figure	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Charleston	case
8	Charleston	Charleston	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 known	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	participle		a figure not said here		Charleston			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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