Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Bruh, why was Remus feelin' squeemish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: feelin squeemish

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 squeemish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 squeemish	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 squeemish	cop
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feelin	compound
6	feelin	feelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squeemish	compound
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 squeemish	punct
8	squeemish	squeemish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 squeemish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		feelin squeemish					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

He ate a whole melon while the others slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 melon	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melon	amod
5	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 slept	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	a whole melon					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient
2	sleep	past	the others						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He ate a whole melon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 melon	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melon	amod
5	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	a whole melon					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient

Option 3

He had eaten the whole melon and a pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 melon	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 melon	amod
6	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pie	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pie	det
9	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	He	the whole melon and a pie					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient

Option 4

He ate some hot bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bread	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	some hot bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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