Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Which action did Uncle Remus propose regarding the boy on Whitehall Street?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, Uncle · What happens: do, propose, regard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 propose	nsubj
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	propose	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 boy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 propose	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Street	case
11	Whitehall	Whitehall	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Street	compound
12	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 boy	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which action		tree rules
2	propose	present	Uncle	regard the boy on Whitehall Street	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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

To chase him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 chase	mark
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chase	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 chase	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	to-infinitive		him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To send him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 send	mark
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 send	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	to-infinitive		him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To lay him out flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lay	mark
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 lay	compound:prt
5	flat	flat	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay out	to-infinitive		him = he				flat property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 4

To scold him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scold	mark
2	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	to-infinitive		him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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