Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Ngl, what did Remus say a bar'l stave could fling into a boy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Remus, bar'l stave · What happens: say, fling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stave	det
8	bar'l	bar'l	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stave	compound
9	stave	stave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fling	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fling	aux
11	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 boy	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fling	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Remus					Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	fling	could	a bar'l stave					into a boy	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into boy=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

Bump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Scars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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