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title: Ok so what day does Uncle Remus want the boy up for? — Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. R… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok so what day does Uncle Remus want the boy up for? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 571 «Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox and Brer Buzzard into the hollow tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

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Ok so what day does Uncle Remus want the boy up for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** day, Uncle · **What happens:** do, want up · **To what, where:** boy

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 571 «Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox and Brer Buzzard into the hollow tree» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/571-pg2306-part7/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t13:1
# text = Ok so what day does Uncle Remus want the boy up for?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | day |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want up** | present | Uncle | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Christmas morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t13:o1:1
# text = Christmas morning
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Independence Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t13:o2:1
# text = Independence Day
1	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t13:o3:1
# text = Sunday
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Thanksgiving Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t13:o4:1
# text = Thanksgiving Day
1	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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