Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Lowkey, who was the old man chatting with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, old man · What happens: be, chat · To what, where: old man

This is test 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. 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
8	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 man	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 chatting	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the old man					tree rules
2	chat speech: other	gerund	the old man not said here						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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

Tempy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sis Tempy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sis	flat

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

Option 3

Brother Jim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brother	flat

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

Option 4

Her son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	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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