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title: Bussin', how did the brother feel when the salt got on him? — Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bussin', how did the brother feel when the salt got on him? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

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Bussin', how did the brother feel when the salt got on him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother, salt · **What happens:** feel, get

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t9:1
# text = Bussin', how did the brother feel when the salt got on him?
1	Bussin	Bussin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	',	',	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | past | the salt |  |  |  |  | on brother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on he=Source |

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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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like fire on a cut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t9:o1:1
# text = like fire on a cut
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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like hot coals on bare skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t9:o2:1
# text = like hot coals on bare skin
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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like a bee sting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t9:o3:1
# text = like a bee sting
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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worse than yellerjacket stings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t9:o4:1
# text = worse than yellerjacket stings
1	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	yellerjacket	yellerjacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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