Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

fr, how old does Remus say he is?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, Remus · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fr	amod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	fr						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	Remus						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

seventy-five years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 seventy	amod

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

Option 2

seventy-five, I think, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	vocative
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 seventy	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 seventy	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 think	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I					seventy vocative	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

seventy-five years old, he claims, but who knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 seventy	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 claims	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 claims	nsubj
8	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 knows	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	present	seventy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	know	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

eighty-five years old, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 eighty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse

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

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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