Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Dang, who hollered for Remus on the porch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dang · What happens: holler · To what, where: porch

This is test 3 · ★ 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	4 hollered	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hollered	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 hollered	nsubj
4	hollered	holler	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Remus	case
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hollered	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 porch	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 porch	det
9	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hollered	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hollered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	holler speech: other	past	Dang			the porch		for Remus	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for remus=Recipient

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

Miss Sally's husband from the big house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sally	compound
2	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 husband	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sally	case
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 husband	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Miss Sally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Miss	flat

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

Option 3

The old white overseer's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 overseer	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 overseer	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 overseer	amod
4	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 overseer	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Mr. Johnson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Johnson	nmod:desc
2	Johnson	Johnson	PROPN	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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