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title: yo, who stayed awake while everybody else was snoring? — Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, who stayed awake while everybody else was snoring? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 577 «Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Possum burned for butter, Rabbit bets Tarrypin a race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

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yo, who stayed awake while everybody else was snoring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everybody · **What happens:** stay, snore

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 577 «Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Possum burned for butter, Rabbit bets Tarrypin a race» 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/577-pg2306-part13/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t1:1
# text = yo, who stayed awake while everybody else was snoring?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past |  |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **snore** | past · progressive | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Brer Rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t1:o1:1
# text = Brer Rabbit
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brer Tarrypin's old cousin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t1:o2:1
# text = Brer Tarrypin's old cousin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	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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Possum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t1:o3:1
# text = Possum
1	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	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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Brer Buzzard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t1:o4:1
# text = Brer Buzzard
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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