Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

According to Uncle Remus, what did a spelling-book cause a laborer to lose?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Remus, laborer · What happens: accord, do, cause, lose · To what, where: spelling book, laborer

This is exam question 3 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Remus	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cause	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Remus	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 book	det
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 book	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 spelling	punct
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
12	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 laborer	det
14	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cause	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lose	mark
16	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cause	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	Uncle Remus	a spelling book	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality
3	cause	present	Uncle Remus	a laborer	tree rules
4	lose	to-infinitive	a laborer not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

His value as a plow-hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 value	nmod:poss
2	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 hand	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hand	det
5	plow	plow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 plow	punct
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 value	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	value		His = he					as a plow hand	nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl

Option 2

His value and his good name in the whole county

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 value	nmod:poss
2	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 name	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 name	amod
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 value	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 county	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 county	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 county	amod
10	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	value		His = he						nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
2	name		his = he			the whole county			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

His place in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 place	nmod:poss
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 place	nmod

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

Option 4

His worth in the cotton crop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 worth	nmod:poss
2	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 crop	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crop	det
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crop	compound
6	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worth	obl

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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