Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Dang, what did Charley say he was gonna shake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charley · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	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	Charley	Charley	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shake	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shake	cop
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 shake	dep
10	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Charley					Dang vocative	tree rules
2	is	past	Charley					shake property	tree rules

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

The temptation of the world and the flesh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temptation	det
2	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 temptation	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flesh	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flesh	det
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 temptation	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tempt			the world					nom temptation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Sinfulness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sinfulness	sinfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

All the wicked habits of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 habits	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 habits	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 habits	amod
4	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 habits	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Worldliness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worldliness	worldliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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