Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

bruh, did ole Remus really say no trick works on him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: trick · What happens: do, say, work · To what, where: ole Remus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 596 «Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets sick, warns a poor family, and confesses to a murder that may not have happened» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Remus	amod
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 trick	det
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 works	nsubj
10	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 works	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		ole Remus		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	work	present	no trick		on Remus	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he said he can tell a fake from a mile off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
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	7 tell	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fake	det
9	fake	fake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mile	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mile	det
12	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obl
13	off	off	ADP	_	7 tell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell off speech: assert	can	he	a fake				from a mile	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fake=Recipient

Option 2

nah, he got tricked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux:pass
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive		he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

yeah, he bragged he spots a hustler from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bragged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bragged	nsubj
4	bragged	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spots	ccomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spots	nsubj
6	spots	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hustler	det
8	hustler	hustler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spots	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 far	case
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 spots	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	past	he						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spot	present	he	a hustler				far property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, he said tricks fool him all the time, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
6	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fool	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fool	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lowkey	punct
12	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	tricks				lowkey obl	tree rules
2	fool	infinitive	he not said here	him = he			time		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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