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title: was the creek cold that night, fr? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the creek cold that night, fr? Test 4 · ★ 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 was righ
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# Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
was the creek cold that night, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creek · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t4:1
# text = was the creek cold that night, fr?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | creek |  |  |  | night | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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the wedder wuz sorter col'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t4:o1:1
# text = the wedder wuz sorter col'
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	wedder	wed	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, it was warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t4:o2:1
# text = nah, it was warm
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
de night wuz dark an' de wind wuz blowin' hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t4:o3:1
# text = de night wuz dark an' de wind wuz blowin' hard
1	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	blowin	blowin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the frost was on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t4:o4:1
# text = the frost was on the ground
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the frost |  |  | the ground |  |  | tree rules |

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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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