Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Which bodily injury is described by simile in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: simile · What happens: describe · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 described	nsubj:pass
2	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 injury	amod
3	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 described	aux:pass
5	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 simile	case
7	simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 passage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 passage	det
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	simile			the passage			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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 bruised knee, likened to a cracked wagon wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knee	det
2	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knee	amod
3	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 likened	punct
5	likened	liken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knee	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 wheel	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wheel	det
8	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wheel	amod
9	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wheel	compound
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bruise	participle			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	liken	participle	the bruised knee not said here	to a cracked wagon wheel	tree rules
3	crack	participle			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bandaged head, likened to a bass-drum stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
2	bandaged	bandage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 head	amod
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 likened	punct
5	likened	liken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 head	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
8	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drum	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bass	punct
10	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	compound
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bandage	participle							vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	liken	participle		the bandaged head not said here				to a drum stick	tree rules

Option 3

The bloody lip, likened to a split and rotting cherry hanging from a hickory tree

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lip	det
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lip	amod
3	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 likened	punct
5	likened	liken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lip	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 split	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 split	det
8	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likened	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cherry	cc
10	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cherry	amod
11	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 split	conj
12	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cherry	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	hickory	hickory	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	liken	participle		the bloody lip not said here		to a split and rotting cherry	tree rules
2	rot	gerund					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hang	gerund	rotting cherry not said here		a hickory tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The swollen nose, likened to a ripe pumpkin left out in the summer heat too long

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nose	det
2	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nose	amod
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 likened	punct
5	likened	liken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nose	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 pumpkin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pumpkin	det
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pumpkin	amod
9	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likened	obl
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pumpkin	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 left	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 heat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heat	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heat	compound
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	liken	participle		the swollen nose not said here				to a ripe pumpkin	tree rules
2	leave out	participle		a ripe pumpkin not said here		the summer heat		long property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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