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title: Fr, who was heavier, the boy or Mars Jeems? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, who was heavier, the boy or Mars Jeems? Test 4 · ★ 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 t
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# Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, part 25: the…

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Fr, who was heavier, the boy or Mars Jeems?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t4:1
# text = Fr, who was heavier, the boy or Mars Jeems?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fr |  |  |  |  | the boy or Mars *obl*; heavy *property* | 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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Mars Jeems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t4:o1:1
# text = Mars Jeems
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neither, they weighed the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t4:o2:1
# text = Neither, they weighed the same
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | past | they | the same |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Mars Jeems was heavier than the boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t4:o3:1
# text = Mars Jeems was heavier than the boy
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mars |  |  |  |  | than the boy; heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mars Jeems was much heavier than the boy and the old man's back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:589-pg2306-part25:t4:o4:1
# text = Mars Jeems was much heavier than the boy and the old man's back
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mars |  |  |  |  | than the boy; heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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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