Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Bro, how did the orator talk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: orator talk

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 talk	det
6	orator	orator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	compound
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the orator talk				Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality

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

Like a grand politician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 politician	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 politician	det
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 politician	amod
4	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

With long words and a loud, pompous voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 voice	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 voice	det
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 voice	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loud	punct
8	pompous	pompous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 voice	amod
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Like a fancy big speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 speech	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 speech	det
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speech	amod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speech	amod
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Like a man reading from a dusty old book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 book	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
7	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 book	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 book	amod
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund	a man not said here			a dusty old book			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source

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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