Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

why Remus yellin' at them to walk back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: walk back

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	Remus	remus	PUNCT	_	3 yellin	punct
3	yellin	yellin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	appos
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 yellin	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 yellin	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 yellin	acl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk back	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the cars can get you in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	the cars	you		trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

the train tickets cost too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tickets	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tickets	compound
3	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cost	nsubj
4	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the train tickets	much					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

Option 3

the cars can get you in real trouble, the conductor will throw everybody off

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 trouble	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trouble	amod
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conductor	det
11	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 throw	aux
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
14	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 throw	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 throw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	the cars	you		real trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	throw off	future	the conductor	everybody					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Theme

Option 4

the cars can get you in trouble with the law, no tickets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 law	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 law	det
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trouble	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tickets	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 tickets	det
13	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trouble	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	the cars	you		trouble with the law and no tickets			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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