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title: Homie, what's quollin' mean in the old talk? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Homie, what's quollin' mean in the old talk? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 589 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the old man refuses more tales, then offers a ride and a string of sayings and songs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

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Homie, what's quollin' mean in the old talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Homie · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** quollin

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 589 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the old man refuses more tales, then offers a ride and a string of sayings and songs» 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/589-pg2306-part25/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t11:1
# text = Homie, what's quollin' mean in the old talk?
1	Homie	homie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	quollin	quollin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | quollin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Homie |  |  |  |  | in the old talk | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in talk=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fighting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t11:o1:1
# text = Fighting
1	Fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Laughing, meaning joking loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t11:o2:1
# text = Laughing, meaning joking loud
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Whispering, meaning talking low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t11:o3:1
# text = Whispering, meaning talking low
1	Whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Quarrelling, meaning arguing hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t11:o4:1
# text = Quarrelling, meaning arguing hard
1	Quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | Quarrelling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *not said to happen* | gerund | Quarrelling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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