Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Yo, what'd Remus say he'd do to that boy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Remus · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 'd	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 'd	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 'd	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 boy	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Remus						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	would	Remus					to that boy	vn act-114-1 «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

Whip him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whip	whip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Whip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material

Option 2

Knock him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Knock	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lay him out flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay out	imperative	you not said here	him = he				flat property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 4

Hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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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