Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Sus, what did the old man say about Mobile men?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do, say · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sus	acl:relcl
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	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 men	case
10	Mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Sus	the old man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Sus					about Mobile men	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Every one of them is a crook and should be jailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crook	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crook	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crook	det
7	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jailed	cc
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 jailed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 jailed	aux:pass
11	jailed	jail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 crook	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every one of them	a crook					tree rules
2	jail	should · passive	every one of them not said here						vn confine-92 «NP V NP»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They steal horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 steal	nsubj
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	They	horses					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Trouble follows them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Trouble	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

They cheat often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheat	nsubj
2	cheat	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	often	often	ADV	_	2 cheat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	present	They					often property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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