Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…
y'all, how many days was he stuck in bed, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: y'all · What happens: be · To what, where: bed
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | y'all | y'all | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 y'all | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | cop |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stuck | nsubj |
| 8 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 real | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 real | case |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stuck | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | y'all | bed | stuck property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | y'all not said here | 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
like 3 weeks I guess lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 weeks | discourse |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 guess | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 guess | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | I | week | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
just a couple days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 couple | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 days | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
like a week, prob
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 week | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prob | punct |
| 5 | prob | prob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 week | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
close to a whole month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 month | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 month | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 month | amod |
| 5 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 close | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | imperative | you not said here | month | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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