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title: Dude, who was starvin' like a tater in this one? — Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, who was starvin' like a tater in this one? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» 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 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

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Dude, who was starvin' like a tater in this one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** starvin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» 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/583-pg2306-part19/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t1:1
# text = Dude, who was starvin' like a tater in this one?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	starvin	starvin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tater	tater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starvin** | past · progressive | Dude |  |  |  |  | like a tater in this one | 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 {#o1}

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Brer Terrapin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t1:o1:1
# text = Brer Terrapin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Brer Possum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t1:o2:1
# text = Brer Possum
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brer Possum, dat ole fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t1:o3:1
# text = Brer Possum, dat ole fool
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dat hongry ole Brer Possum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t1:o4:1
# text = dat hongry ole Brer Possum
1	dat	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	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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