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title: Did Possum keep sayin' one more, or nah? — Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Possum keep sayin' one more, or nah? Test 5 · ★ 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 op
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# Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

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Did Possum keep sayin' one more, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Possum · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** sayin

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t5:1
# text = Did Possum keep sayin' one more, or nah?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sayin	sayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | Possum | sayin |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sayin=Theme more=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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One more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t5:o1:1
# text = One more
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just one more, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t5:o2:1
# text = Just one more, bro
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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"One 'simmon mo'"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t5:o3:1
# text = "One 'simmon mo'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	simmon	simmon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, one more time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t5:o4:1
# text = Yeah, one more time
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	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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