Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Which condition did Uncle Remus describe as following his consumption of the watermelon?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: describe, follow, consume · To what, where: condition, consumption, watermelon

This is exam question 2 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 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 describe	aux
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 describe	nsubj
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 following	mark
8	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 describe	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 consumption	nmod:poss
10	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 watermelon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 watermelon	det
13	watermelon	watermelon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consumption	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	describe	past · do-support	Uncle	which condition	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund	Uncle not said here	Uncle's consumption of the watermelon	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consumption=Theme
3	consume		Uncle	the watermelon	nom consumption «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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

Hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sickness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A feeling of great thirst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 feeling	det
2	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 thirst	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thirst	amod
5	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeling	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A state of squeamishness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 state	det
2	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 squeamishness	case
4	squeamishness	squeamishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 state	nmod

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

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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