Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

Yo, did Uncle Remus really say his tooth was galloping all night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle, tooth · What happens: say, gallop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tooth	nmod:poss
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 galloping	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 galloping	aux
11	galloping	gallop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 galloping	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gallop	past · progressive	Uncle's tooth				night		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, it was just a dull ache in his jaw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 ache	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ache	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ache	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 ache	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ache	det
7	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ache	amod
8	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 jaw	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 jaw	nmod:poss
11	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ache	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a dull ache		his jaw			tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was galloping like a whole herd of circus horses dancing a jig through the night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 galloping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 galloping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 galloping	aux
5	galloping	gallop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 herd	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 herd	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 herd	amod
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 galloping	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 horses	case
11	circus	circus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horses	amod
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 herd	nmod
13	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 horses	acl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 jig	det
15	jig	jig	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dancing	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop	past · progressive	it					like a whole herd of circus horses	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	gerund	circus horses not said here	a jig			night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jig=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, like a whole herd of circus horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 herd	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 herd	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 herd	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 herd	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 herd	amod
6	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	circus	circus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 herd	nmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, like a whole herd of circus horses all running at once across his jaw all night long

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 running	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 herd	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 herd	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 herd	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 herd	amod
6	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	circus	circus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 herd	nmod
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 running	advmod
11	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 running	obl
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 jaw	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 jaw	nmod:poss
16	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	a whole herd of circus horses			herd's jaw	night	all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

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