Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

Where did the stranger say he knew Uncle Remus from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stranger · What happens: say, know · To what, where: Uncle Remus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 knew	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	7 knew	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the stranger						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	stranger	Uncle Remus					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer remus=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Charlstun and Sewanny, back in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Sewanny	cc
3	Sewanny	Sewanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
5	back	back	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	appos

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

Option 2

Charlstun and Augusta, way back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Augusta	cc
3	Augusta	Augusta	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	appos
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 way	advmod

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

Option 3

Charlstun and Sewanny, and also up north in Richmond, back in the day

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Sewanny	cc
3	Sewanny	Sewanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Richmond	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Richmond	cc
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	10 Richmond	advmod
8	north	north	ADV	_	10 Richmond	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Richmond	case
10	Richmond	Richmond	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 back	punct
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 Richmond	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl

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

Option 4

Charlstun and Sewanny, back in the day when the mill was running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Sewanny	cc
3	Sewanny	Sewanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
5	back	back	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Charlstun	appos
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 running	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	_	13 running	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 running	aux
13	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 day	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	the mill						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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