Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

Be honest, what was the old man doing with his pockets?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: be, do · To what, where: old man

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 man	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 man	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 pockets	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pockets	nmod:poss
12	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			honest property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the old man		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the old man not said here		with man's pockets	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Counting his money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 money	nmod:poss
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		his money					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2

Searching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searching	searching	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fumbling around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fumbling	fumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Fumbling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fumble around	gerund						around property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Looking for coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 coins	case
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for coins	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for coin=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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