Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

no cap, which town's the fam tryna get to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town, cap · What happens: be, get · To what, where: fam

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fam	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fam	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fam	det
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj
9	tryna	tryna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 fam	dep
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which town	the fam					tree rules
2	get	infinitive	no cap and the fam						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Jonesboro, down in Georgia, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 think	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Georgia	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	5 Georgia	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Georgia	case
5	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jonesboro	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jonesboro	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2

Savannah, out in Georgia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Georgia	punct
3	out	out	ADV	_	5 Georgia	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Georgia	case
5	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Savannah	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tallapoosy, down in Alabam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tallapoosy	Tallapoosy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Alabam	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	5 Alabam	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Alabam	case
5	Alabam	Alabam	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tallapoosy	conj

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

Option 4

Charleston, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charleston	Charleston	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Charleston	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Charleston	discourse

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

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