Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

wait, what did Brer John Henry think was in the bag, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Brer · What happens: wait, think, be · To what, where: bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 think	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 think	nsubj
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brer	flat
7	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 John	flat
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bag	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bag	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fr	punct
14	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	Brer		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	is	past		the bag and fr	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

Melons, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melons	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Watermelons, bro, it was late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watermelons	watermelon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watermelons	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 late	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 late	cop
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Watermelons	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bro					late property	tree rules

Option 3

Pumpkins, bro, it was night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pumpkins	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 night	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 night	cop
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pumpkins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	night					tree rules

Option 4

Melons, fr, it was dark out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dark	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fr	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melons	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Melons	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dark	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	cop
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 dark	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Melons and fr					dark property	tree rules

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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