Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

did Uncle Remus say folks are fixing up for Christmas?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Remus, folks · What happens: say, fix up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Remus	aux
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fixing	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fixing	aux
7	fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 say	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 fixing	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 Christmas	case
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fixing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Uncle Remus						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fix up	present · progressive	folks					for Christmas	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for christmas=Beneficiary

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

Nah, not yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 yet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 yet	advmod
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, poor folks gotta get their rations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 folks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 folks	amod
4	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	gotta	gotta	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 folks	acl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 rations	nmod:poss
8	rations	ration	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	infinitive	poor folks not said here	folks's rations					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ration=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, folks just wait on the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wait	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wait	advmod
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 spring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	folks				spring		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yep, they're cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 cooking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cooking	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cooking	aux
5	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · progressive	they						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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