Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

bruh, what is "seetful" even mean, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: seetful · What happens: be, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 seetful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 seetful	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seetful	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seetful	punct
6	seetful	seetful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mean	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seetful	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 real	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 real	case
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 real	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mean	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						seetful property	tree rules
2	mean	infinitive	seetful						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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

It means tricky or sly, boo, the way a fox acts when the hens are near

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 sly	cc
5	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tricky	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boo	punct
7	boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricky	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 acts	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 acts	obl:unmarked
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 acts	nsubj
13	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 near	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hens	det
16	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 near	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 near	cop
18	near	near	ADV	_	13 acts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It		tricky property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	act	present	a fox	the way		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the hens		near property	tree rules

Option 2

It means lazy or slow, boo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 slow	cc
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lazy	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boo	punct
7	boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It					lazy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Kind of loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 loud	case
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kind	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It means tricky or sly, boo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 sly	cc
5	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tricky	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boo	punct
7	boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It					tricky property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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