Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Fr, what was the little boy carrying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: little boy

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 boy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	conj
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 carrying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fr and the little boy	the little boy					tree rules
2	carry	gerund	Fr and the little boy						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

A slate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 slate	det
2	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bucket	det
2	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

A pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pen	det
2	pen	pen	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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