Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Bet, what did the slick dude wear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: do · To what, where: slick dude wear

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wear	det
6	slick	slick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wear	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wear	compound
8	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bet	the slick dude wear					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=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 · ← Mova's choice

A tall shiny silk top hat with feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hat	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hat	amod
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hat	amod
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hat	compound
5	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hat	amod
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hat	nmod

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

Option 2

A fancy gray vest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vest	det
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vest	amod
3	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vest	compound
4	vest	vest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A bee-gum hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hat	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gum	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bee	punct
4	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hat	compound
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A straw boater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boater	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boater	compound
3	boater	boater	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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