Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Lowkey, what did Remus say about the collection?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	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	about	about	ADP	_	9 collection	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collection	det
9	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Lowkey					about the collection	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Give the boy a dime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dime	det
5	dime	dime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a dime	the boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient dime=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hold it for later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 later	case
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wait till he's seasoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 seasoned	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seasoned	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seasoned	aux:pass
5	seasoned	season	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	season	present · passive		he					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

Option 4

Pay him now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pay	obj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	him = he			now		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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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