Test 14 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…
Yo, how long had Charley been in church?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: have, be · To what, where: Charley, church
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 church | csubj |
| 6 | Charley | Charley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 church | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 church | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Charley | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charley=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | church | 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
About a month ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 month | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Since last spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 spring | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spring | amod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Mighty near a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 week | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 week | det |
| 4 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mighty | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/598-pg2306-part34/t14/