Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

so was Uncle Remus mad when they teased him or chill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle, they · What happens: be, tease, chill · To what, where: Uncle

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 mad	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Uncle	flat
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 teased	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 teased	nsubj
8	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 teased	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 chill	cc
11	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 teased	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Uncle		mad property	tree rules
2	tease	past	they	Uncle		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	chill	infinitive	they not said here			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

Mad, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Chill, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chill	punct
3	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 Chill	discourse

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chill, his good humor never broke, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 humor	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 humor	nmod:poss
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 humor	amod
5	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chill	conj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 broke	advmod
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 broke	punct
9	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 broke	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break	past	Chill and his good humor						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	humor		his = he						nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Chill, he kept his temper all day, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chill	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 temper	nmod:poss
6	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chill	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 Chill	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	chill	imperative	you not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	past	he	his temper	day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme
3	temper		his = he			nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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