Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…
Bruh, where was Uncle Remus standing when he got bumped?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: be, stand, bump · To what, where: Uncle Remus, Remus
This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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 | Bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 7 standing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 standing | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Remus | cop |
| 5 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Remus | compound |
| 6 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 bumped | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bumped | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bumped | aux:pass |
| 11 | bumped | bump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 standing | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Uncle Remus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Uncle Remus | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bump | past · passive | Remus | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |
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
Near the store front
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 front | det |
| 3 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 front | compound |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Behind the wagon wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 wheel | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wheel | det |
| 3 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheel | compound |
| 4 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
By the bank corner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 corner | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corner | det |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 corner | compound |
| 4 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Standing in the middle of the dusty road outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 7 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 road | amod |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 1 Standing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the middle of the dusty road | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/599-pg2306-part35/t1/