Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

Who was the guy with the lavender gloves, the society editor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: guy

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 guy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guy	det
4	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 gloves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gloves	det
7	lavender	lavender	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gloves	compound
8	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guy	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 editor	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 editor	det
11	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 editor	compound
12	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guy	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the guy and the society editor				with the lavender gloves	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

Yeah, the dude who fixed his cuffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fixed	nsubj
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cuffs	nmod:poss
8	cuffs	cuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fixed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	the dude	his cuffs					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cuff=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids and waved his hat at the crowd

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 smoothed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoothed	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smoothed	nsubj
6	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kids	nmod:poss
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smoothed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waved	cc
10	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smoothed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hat	nmod:poss
12	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waved	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 crowd	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crowd	det
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smooth	past		the dude					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kid=Patient
2	wave	past		his hat		the crowd			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 smoothed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoothed	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smoothed	nsubj
6	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kids	nmod:poss
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smoothed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smooth	past		the dude					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the dude who smoothed his lavender gloves on the porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 smoothed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoothed	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smoothed	nsubj
6	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gloves	nmod:poss
8	lavender	lavender	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gloves	compound
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smoothed	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 porch	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 porch	det
12	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoothed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smooth	past		the dude		the porch			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glove=Patient

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