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title: where'd the bed-cord come from, ya know? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: where'd the bed-cord come from, ya know? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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where'd the bed-cord come from, ya know?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bed cord, ya · **What happens:** come, know

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» 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/582-pg2306-part18/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t11:1
# text = where'd the bed-cord come from, ya know?
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	ya	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the bed cord |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | ya |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Miss Meadows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t11:o1:1
# text = Miss Meadows
1	Miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the neighbor's barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t11:o2:1
# text = the neighbor's barn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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from her spare room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t11:o3:1
# text = from her spare room
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	room	room	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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from her own feather bed upstairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t11:o4:1
# text = from her own feather bed upstairs
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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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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