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title: Bruh, what did Uncle Remus say was tangled in Cholly's mane? — Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what did Uncle Remus say was tangled in Cholly's mane? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

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Bruh, what did Uncle Remus say was tangled in Cholly's mane?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, tangle · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, mane

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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/586-pg2306-part22/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t2:1
# text = Bruh, what did Uncle Remus say was tangled in Cholly's mane?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Cholly	Cholly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tangle** | present · passive |  |  |  | Cholly's mane |  |  | 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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tangled burrs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t2:o1:1
# text = tangled burrs
1	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	burrs	burr	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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burrs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t2:o2:1
# text = burrs
1	burrs	burr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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mud clots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t2:o3:1
# text = mud clots
1	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	clots	clot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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witch-stirrups

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t2:o4:1
# text = witch-stirrups
1	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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