Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

what he grab, like a weapon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: grab · To what, where: weapon

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grab	nsubj
3	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weapon	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 weapon	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 weapon	det
7	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grab	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	he	a weapon					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=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

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his ole shotgun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shotgun	nmod:poss
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shotgun	amod
3	shotgun	shotgun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

his ole muskit from the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 muskit	nmod:poss
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 muskit	amod
3	muskit	muskit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 muskit	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his ole muskit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 muskit	nmod:poss
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 muskit	amod
3	muskit	muskit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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