Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Real talk, what did Uncle Remus say about the Buro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: say · To what, where: Real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Remus	aux
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Remus	compound
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Buro	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Buro	det
11	Buro	Buro	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Uncle Remus	Real talk				about the Buro	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 right answer

It got busted up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 busted	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 busted	aux:pass
3	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 busted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bust up	past · passive		It					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	It						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Gone now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle					now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It was torn down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 torn	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 torn	aux:pass
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 torn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear down	past · passive		It					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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