Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Dude, what was Uncle Remus expecting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: expect

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expecting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 expecting	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 expecting	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 expecting	aux
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 expecting	nsubj
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 expecting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · progressive	Dude						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice

A quarrel at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarrel	det
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 noon	case
4	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarrel	nmod

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

Option 2

Fists from every side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 side	det
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fists	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An attack from all sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 attack	det
2	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sides	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sides	det
5	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attack	nmod

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

Option 4

A fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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