Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Salty, what had the workers been eyeballing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: workers · What happens: eyeball

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eyeballing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 eyeballing	obj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eyeballing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 workers	det
6	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eyeballing	nsubj
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 eyeballing	aux
8	eyeballing	eyeball	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Salty	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eyeball	past · perfect · progressive	the workers						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

The gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The chicken-coop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coop	det
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coop	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 chicken	punct
4	coop	coop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The corn crib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crib	det
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crib	compound
3	crib	crib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The smokehouse door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	smokehouse	smokehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	compound
3	door	door	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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