Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

So Uncle Remus said he ain't been to the mill since when?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Uncle	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mill	nsubj
6	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mill	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 mill	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 mill	cop
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
12	since	since	ADP	_	13 when	case
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 mill	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	Uncle					to the mill	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 · ✓ the right answer

Since the day before yesterday, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 yesterday	case
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj

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

Option 2

Since the day before yesterday morning, bro, when the tooth first galloped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 galloped	obl
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 morning	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 galloped	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 galloped	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tooth	det
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 galloped	nsubj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 galloped	advmod
14	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop	past	the tooth				day	first property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Since Monday morning, I reckon, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 morning	compound
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	I	bro			morning		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bro=Attribute

Option 4

Since the day before yesterday, bro, and I ain't been back since

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 yesterday	case
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yesterday	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 back	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 back	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 back	nsubj
11	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 back	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 back	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 back	cop
14	back	back	ADV	_	3 day	advmod
15	since	since	ADV	_	14 back	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	I					back, since property	tree rules

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