Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

what did the men think was in the jug, like molasses or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: men · What happens: think, be · To what, where: jug

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» 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	9 jug	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jug	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 jug	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jug	det
9	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 molasses	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 molasses	case
12	molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 jug	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 molasses	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 jug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the men						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				the jug and molasses			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 · ✓ the right answer

Molasses, kerosene, or train-oil, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kerosene	punct
3	kerosene	kerosene	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oil	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 oil	cc
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 train	punct
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	conj

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

Option 2

Molasses, kerosene, or whiskey, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kerosene	punct
3	kerosene	kerosene	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whiskey	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 whiskey	cc
6	whiskey	whiskey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj

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

Option 3

Molasses, kerosene, or train-oil, bro, and maybe a little stolen cider too

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kerosene	punct
3	kerosene	kerosene	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oil	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 oil	cc
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 train	punct
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cider	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cider	cc
13	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	17 cider	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cider	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cider	amod
16	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cider	amod
17	cider	cider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 cider	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Molasses, kerosene, or train-oil, bro, all mixed with the bread crumbs from the staff's lunch

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kerosene	punct
3	kerosene	kerosene	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oil	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 oil	cc
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 train	punct
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molasses	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mixed	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 mixed	nsubj:pass
13	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Molasses	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 crumbs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crumbs	det
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crumbs	compound
17	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mixed	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	22 lunch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 staff	det
20	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lunch	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 staff	case
22	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle · passive	Molasses and kerosene or train oil and bro not said here	all		the staff's lunch		with the bread crumbs	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with crumb=Co-Patient

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