Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…
No cap, what holiday is this sketch about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be · To what, where: sketch
This is test 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. 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sketch | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 sketch | nsubj |
| 5 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sketch | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sketch | cop |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sketch | det |
| 8 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cap | appos |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 sketch | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no cap | this sketch | tree rules |
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
The Christmas season
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 season | det |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 season | compound |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Fourth of July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fourth | det |
| 2 | Fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 July | case |
| 4 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fourth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Labor Day weekend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labor | Labor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | compound |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 weekend | compound |
| 3 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Independence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Independence | independence | 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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