Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

wild, Remus said he might've killed somebody?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wild Remus · What happens: say, kill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Remus	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wild	punct
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 've	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 've	aux
7	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 somebody	amod
9	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 've	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wild Remus						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	kill	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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

he thinks maybe he did, idk

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 idk	punct
7	idk	idk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thinks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	he	maybe property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	idk	infinitive	he not said here		tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he might've knocked a dude out in the burbs, lol, idk

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	nsubj:pass
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	aux
5	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 knocked	aux
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dude	det
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 knocked	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 burbs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 burbs	det
12	burbs	burb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knocked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 knocked	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct
16	idk	idk	INTJ	_	6 knocked	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	might · perfect · passive		he		the burbs			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination dude=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he thinks he might have, lol

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thinks	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 thinks	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	might	he						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he thinks he might have, lol, he was in the suburbs that night

The tree, 13 words

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thinks	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suburbs	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 suburbs	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 suburbs	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 suburbs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 suburbs	det
13	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thinks	obl
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 suburbs	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	might	he			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he	the suburbs	night	tree rules

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