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title: What saved Bear from choking out? — Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His… · tree and pragmatics
description: What saved Bear from choking out? Test 10 · ★ 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 each option; 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

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What saved Bear from choking out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** save, choke out · **To what, where:** Bear

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t10:1
# text = What saved Bear from choking out?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past |  | Bear |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 2 | **choke out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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a cup of tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t10:o1:1
# text = a cup of tea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a gourd of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t10:o2:1
# text = a gourd of water
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a big gourd full of cool water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t10:o3:1
# text = a big gourd full of cool water
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a jug of cider

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t10:o4:1
# text = a jug of cider
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cider	cider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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