Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

so the jug is like old, like from when Mars 'Lisha was young?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jug, Lisha · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	6 old	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jug	det
3	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 old	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 young	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 young	mark
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	15 young	mark
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 young	advmod
11	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Lisha	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 Mars	case
13	Lisha	Lisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 young	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 young	cop
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the jug					old property	tree rules
2	is	past	Mars's Lisha					young property	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

Yeah, going on forty-five years, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 years	case
5	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 five	punct
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 forty	conj
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund		fr			year		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, going on sixty-five years, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 years	case
5	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 five	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sixty	punct
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund					year	bro vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it's just a few years, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 years	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 years	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 years	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 years	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a few years and bro					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, going on sixty-five years, bro, since Mars 'Lisha was a little boy in Putnam

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 years	case
5	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 five	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sixty	punct
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 boy	mark
13	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Lisha	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 Mars	case
15	Lisha	Lisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 boy	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boy	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Putnam	case
21	Putnam	Putnam	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 boy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund					year	bro vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Mars's Lisha	a little boy		Putnam			tree rules

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