Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…
wait, why are the peckerwoods chattering, is it the weather?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, peckerwoods, it · What happens: wait, chatter, be · To what, where: weather
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | _ | 3 why | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 chattering | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chattering | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 peckerwoods | det |
| 6 | peckerwoods | peckerwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chattering | nsubj |
| 7 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 wait | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weather | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 weather | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weather | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weather | det |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chatter | present · progressive | the peckerwoods | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | it | the weather | 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
Yeah, the hot weather is breaking up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 breaking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weather | amod |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breaking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | aux |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 breaking | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present · progressive | the hot weather | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Nah, the summer heat is staying now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 staying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heat | det |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heat | compound |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staying | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 staying | aux |
| 7 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 staying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present · progressive | the summer heat | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, the hot weather is breaking up, so the peckerwoods chatter at dusk
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 breaking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weather | amod |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breaking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | aux |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 breaking | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chatter | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 chatter | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peckerwoods | det |
| 12 | peckerwoods | peckerwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chatter | nsubj |
| 13 | chatter | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 dusk | case |
| 15 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chatter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present · progressive | the hot weather | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | chatter | present | the peckerwoods | dusk | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, the hot weather is breaking up, and the martins are already leaving the barn roof
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 breaking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weather | amod |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breaking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | aux |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 breaking | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaving | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 martins | det |
| 12 | martins | martin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leaving | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 leaving | aux |
| 14 | already | already | ADV | _ | 15 leaving | advmod |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 breaking | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 17 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roof | compound |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present · progressive | the hot weather | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · progressive | the martins | the barn roof | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme |
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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