Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

What does the commencement orator regard as the cause of the day's disturbances?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: day · What happens: do, cause, disturb · To what, where: commencement orator regard, disturbances

This is exam question 4 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	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 regard	det
4	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regard	compound
5	orator	orator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regard	compound
6	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 cause	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cause	det
9	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regard	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 disturbances	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disturbances	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 day	case
14	disturbances	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cause	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the commencement orator regard	as the cause of the day's disturbances	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Eventuality
2	cause			the day's disturbances		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
3	disturb		the day			nom disturbance «event transitive»: poss=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

Drunk men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	amod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Careless talk by young people at picnics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 picnics	case
7	picnics	picnic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk		young people at picnics						nom talk «communication intransitive»: by=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Disputes among citizens on holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disputes	dispute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	among	among	ADP	_	3 citizens	case
3	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Disputes	nmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 holidays	case
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 citizens	nmod

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

Option 4

Holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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