Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

What term did the agricultural editor employ in addressing the narrator?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, agricultural editor employ · What happens: do, address · To what, where: agricultural editor employ, narrator

This is exam question 2 of lesson 599 «Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus shows up bandaged on the Fourth of July, and the newspaper men question him about a fight with a slick man» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 employ	det
5	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 employ	amod
6	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	compound
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 addressing	mark
9	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 employ	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrator	det
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addressing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	term	the agricultural editor employ					tree rules
2	address	gerund	the agricultural editor employ not said here	the narrator					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Destination

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

"you low-down sneaking old villain from the river"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sneaking	punct
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sneaking	nsubj
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sneaking	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 low	punct
5	down	down	ADV	_	6 sneaking	advmod
6	sneaking	sneak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 villain	amod
8	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneaking	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneaking	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sneaking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak in a quote	gerund	you	old villain		the river		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent villain=Theme from river=Trajectory

Option 2

"you old villain, get off my land"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 villain	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 villain	amod
4	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 villain	punct
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 get	compound:prt
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 land	nmod:poss
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	villain in a quote		you						tree rules
2	get off in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my land					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus

Option 3

"you old rascal"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rascal	punct
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 rascal	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rascal	amod
4	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rascal	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"you old villain"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 villain	punct
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 villain	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 villain	amod
4	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 villain	punct

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

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