Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

how he feelin' then, like scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: feelin

This is test 11 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 then	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feelin	nsubj
3	feelin	feelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 how	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 feelin	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 scared	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 scared	case
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feelin		he						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

he felt kinda sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 sick	advmod
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

his brissels riz up and he was real scared, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brissels	nmod:poss
2	brissels	brissel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 riz	nsubj
3	riz	riz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 riz	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scared	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scared	amod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 riz	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 riz	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	riz up	present	his brissels						tree rules
2	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his brissels riz up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brissels	nmod:poss
2	brissels	brissel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 riz	nsubj
3	riz	riz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 riz	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	riz up	present	his brissels						tree rules

Option 4

he was scared outta his mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 outta	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outta	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 outta	amod
4	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outta	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	scared outta					tree rules
2	mind		his = he						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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